tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …

This paper focuses on the role of “institutions” in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …’s civilisation. The inclusion of health, nutrition, and literacy indicators in defining well-being (or, non-income poverty à la … of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC data prove …