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 …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory … associated with various measures of income inequality. This negative association is robust to alternative firm-level capital …

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 …

, living below the poverty threshold, long-term food dependency, illicit drug consumption, and residing in low- and middle …

. 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 …

higher levels of poverty. …

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