) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

, simultaneously, changes in the distribution of income. This study tries to capture how these changes affected poverty levels across … major states in India. Total change in poverty is decomposed into the changes due to a rise in the mean income level and due … poverty though changes in the distribution of income which adversely affected the poor. …

It has been shown in prior research that increased economic growth reduces poverty. Authors have also found that the … effect of growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on poverty growth has either diminished or remained unchanged over time, and … economic expansion in the 1980s in the United States had no affect on poverty. Using a formal error-correction model, we find …