sides. The paper estimates how much of China's poverty rate around 1980--near the outset of Deng Xiaoping's pro … China's poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if …

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be … poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty …

from the analysis. (i) Fiscal expansions led to higher growth rates and reduced negative trade-offs, e.g., pollution and … poor-health mortalities associated with economic growth. (ii) Fiscal adjustments led to a more inclusive economy, lowered … poverty headcounts, improved sanitation, and cleaner technology access. (iii) Fiscal expansions followed an increase in direct …

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … past economic progress, including poverty reduction. The paper does not find robust time-series evidence of polarizing … effects alongside either economic growth or population urbanization (including among those below the national median). There …

. The results indicate large gains from tradeable assignments after first randomizing. The gains exceed those from poverty …

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

-net programs, but consistent with evidence on the financial challenges of poverty. Second, poverty itself affects preferences: a …

developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn … growth as well as the sustainable development indicators, however, is not clear-cut. Jointly, more tax revenues and … expenditures, together with better governance help explain the association between economic growth and inclusive development. High …