inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly …

progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average … sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … of global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative …

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …

poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …

finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …

higher levels of poverty. …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …