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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …