Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have shown strong signs of growth resilience in … benefited the top quintile during PRSP implementation. It finds that PRSP implementation has neither reduced poverty headcount … successful in reducing poverty and increasing the income share of the poor, there is no conclusive evidence that PRSP …

poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries … economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …-effective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more …

We investigate the factors driving Bolivia's success in reducing inequality and poverty during the last 15 years. Our … the poverty and inequality reduction of the last 15 years …

framework (IGF). Based on the data on growth, poverty,and inequality, the framework allows for the quantitative assessment of … growth inclusiveness.The assessment relies on the decomposition of the change in poverty into growth, distribution,and decile …