, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress … towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during this time. This paper sheds light on some elements of Vietnam … remaining SDGs in Vietnam will be a challenge, with total annual additional spending needs in the 5 subsectors estimated at 7 …

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and … countries the key components of inclusive growth models, outcomes from these models, and the road ahead in the respective … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty … rates, but income inequality has not retreated. This research aims at identifying factors which could contribute to more … equally distributed growth in ASEAN. To measure inclusive growth, we use a variable integrating per capita income growth and …

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines … claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …

between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …

Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and … empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The … evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on …

convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …

service institutions, could broaden access to financial resources, fuel non-inflationary, demand-led growth; and foster …

economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality … poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …

This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub … fast- and slow-growth, countries. The study also finds that quality of growth, civil conflict, HIV/AIDs, civil and … institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across …