poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … higher growth and a more pro-poor pattern of growth. Post-1991 data suggest stronger inter-sectoral linkages: urban …

its population. The opportunity of African countries to convert these changes into demographic dividends for growth and … poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … account for 11 to 15 percent of gross domestic product volume growth by 2030, while accounting for 40 to 60 million fewer poor …

of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effective for poverty reduction than growth …This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

The Government of Cameroon has declared poverty reduction through strong and sustainable economic growth the central … households. Employment in smallholder agriculture has a negative impact on welfare across quantiles. Economic growth was … accompanied by significant poverty reduction between 1996 and 2001. But poverty barely decreased between 2001 and 2007 due to very …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …. It does so by focusing on the structure of output growth. The paper presents a two-sector theoretical model that …