and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

This paper briefly reviews the literature on economic growth and poverty and then examines whether economic growth … influences poverty dynamics. The literature relating to the impact of economic growth on poverty reduction usually relies on … national or state-level information on economic growth and incidence of poverty. While this may capture broader dimensions of …

's poverty reduction strategy (MKUKUTA 2005-2010) has not translated into the expected reduction in poverty, as there has been a … rise in one million people living in poverty over the period 2001 to 2007. The official response has been a call for broad …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within … vary within countries by wealth and gender and across countries by stages of development. We discuss evidence that shows … how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income …