, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We …

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying … characteristics, i.e. fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps. Taking geographical variables as … fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low …

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 …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

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 …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …