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 …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

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 …

to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is … recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …

and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in … Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …