economic and policy changes on income distribution. This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained … income source and population subgroup. Some preliminary explanations are provided for these trends in terms of shifts in …

correlate estimated expected returns to fertilizer use with geographically disaggregated estimates of headcount poverty rates …. We find a very weak positive correlation between poverty and the expected returns to fertilizer, which calls into … question how spatially distributionally progressive fertilizer subsidies are in helping to reduce poverty among Malawian …

project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How … effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns fundamentally on the degree to which MGNREGS targets its …