substantial progress along the SDGs by 2030. We estimate the additional spending needed in critical areas of human capital (health …

different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …

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 …

.6 percent nationally. The implied poverty elasticity with respect to growth in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is within … the range of past experience, and states with higher gross domestic product growth saw greater predicted poverty …This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

reducing poverty in the 1990s was, in part, due to higher growth and lower inflation …India’s progress in reducing poverty at the national level masks substantial disparity in the incidence of poverty at … the state level. This paper provides a description of the trends in interstate differences in rural poverty for the period …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated …, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …