and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …