better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

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 …

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

unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more … development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …