increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …, by the large growth rate of the incomes of the 1.2 billion Chinese citizens. Unless Africa starts growing in the near … aggregate GDP growth of the African continent should be the priority of anyone concerned with increasing global income …

earnings, unemployment, and inequality on poverty in the boom. I find that the tight labor market reduced poverty substantively …, gainsaying the gloom that developed in the 1980s about the effect of economic growth on the less advantaged; and that socially … poverty population. Moreover, the level of the tide needed to improve the conditions of the less advantaged is a 4 …

. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment … slowest growing countries in the model have growth rates and investment-output ratios similar to those in the data. In both … quantitative discrepancy between the model and the data is that there is more persistence in growth rates of relative incomes in …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force … growth. The data do not, however, confidently support the conclusions that SMEs exert a causal impact on growth. Furthermore …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central … robust determinants of economic growth reported by Sala-i-Martin, Doppelhofer and Miller (2003) and project the annual growth …

The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and … place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …