development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps, and price …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …