exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … poverty reduction. …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices …Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty …

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration. …