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

poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …

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 …

, 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 …

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

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …