excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how …, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth … US-style "laissez-faire" social contracts sustainable.; I also compare the growth rates of these two politico …

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … advantage of assistance? We explore this potential trade-off in the context of an NGO cash transfer program in Kenya, utilizing … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias are not so extreme as to foreclose prospects for more rapid growth and … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

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 … achieved on time; (3) the growth spurt that began in 1995 decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it; (4 …

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 …

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

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … grows. This growth in differentials is of a smaller magnitude than the actual increase in inequality, but it is nonetheless … positive and substantial in size. Weighing against this, growth in inequality is met with greater support for government …