health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is …A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … results show that economic growth can reduce child poverty but does not do so always. For understanding changes over time and … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over …

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 …

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 …

% (0.19 years); and that selection for survival decreased within-region inequality in famine stricken regions …

of estimated wages. This paper shows that employment growth does not necessarily result in lower relative poverty shares …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food stamps, TANF, General Assistance, and subsidized housing from New … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …