for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …

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 … increase spending on health, education, and social safetynets; labor market reforms to boost the labor share of total income …

episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on socially desirable outcomes, for example, improvements in health, education and … poverty indicators? To do this, the paper first examines various aspects of the fundamentals of growth in SSAâ …

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 …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects … of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …

This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …

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 … inclusiveness of growth. States with higher financial development, more flexible labor markets, and higher average education …