services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural …, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin … (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper …

largely accounted for by the technology trap responsible for the poverty trap. This result is supported by empirical evidence …

, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper sheds light on how poverty and inequality have … company. The results show that: (1) extreme poverty is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty … reductions in rural areas; (2) urban poverty rose by 2 percentage points in 2016 (coinciding with the demonetization event) and …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants. …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

reducing poverty and stimulating growth. Going beyond the large literature documenting the impact of female education on a … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and … household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …

explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible. …