We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

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 …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …