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

This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …

This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and …-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important contributor was the growth in labor income …, mostly in the form of farm income in Bangladesh and Thailand and non-farm income in the case of Peru. This growth in labor …

mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. The authors find evidence that producing … districts have better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty …

the next generations to spring out of the poverty and inequality lived by their parents, engendering risks of poverty and …

-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …