Balakrishnan, Ravi; Steinberg, Chad; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these … outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …