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 …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

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 …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …