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

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

would be without increased foreign aid. Moreover, the higher growth would help Niger to cut the incidence of poverty by 25 … percent by 2015, although the country will still be unable to reach the Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction (MDG …

contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …