elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

This paper considers the distribution of HIV testing in Botswana in 2002 and 2004. Botswana is a country with a high …

overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …. In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and …

to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php]. …

urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …