and urban household income to decrease and has thus slowed down household consumption growth. The provision of broader … households more security for spending that could reduce the high savings rate and help achieve a balanced growth path in the long …

Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth … elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural … adjustment on growth. Instead, the poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in …

This paper focuses on government investment and expenditure policies. Going beyond the growth experience, the author … effects of growth, are linked directly to the failure of governance. This failure has many dimensions; the misallocation of …

If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … capita income (NSDP) growth and Gini coefficients, estimated from the data on household consumer expenditure (taken as a …