violent conflict in Nepal. They find that conflict intensity is significantly higher in places with greater poverty and lower … levels of economic development. Violence is higher in locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests. The …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty … context matters, two lessons stand out. The first is the importance of productivity growth in smallholder agriculture, which …

poverty reduction. The authors use a sample of 104 short-run growth spells in developing countries, between 1980 and 2001 … of growth does not matter for poverty reduction any more than the aggregate productivity intensity of growth, the … is associated with decreases in poverty, while employment-intensive growth in agriculture is correlated with poverty …

productivity and stronger growth rates are attributed to trade reform, its contribution to medium-term poverty reduction is rather … connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional …. Regressions quantify that growth in the organized sector by state-industry reduces the unorganized sector employment share, but …

may be the source of dynamic growth through learning-by-doing and knowledge spillovers, patterns of labor, land and other …

The causal link between finance and growth is one of the most striking empirical macroeconomic relationships uncovered … in the past decade. As this branch of the literature matures, the focus shifts from growth to other aspects of economic … the literature and contributes by: Showing that financial depth is negatively associated with headcount poverty, even …

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether … cross-country sample, the authors find that the answer is yes: Financial intermediary development reduces income inequality … by disproportionately boosting the income of the poor and therefore reduces poverty. This result is robust to controlling …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

evidence of the negative effects of violence on short-term economic growth, since minimal to 0 effects on human capital …This paper studies the sharp increase in violence experienced in Mexico after 2006, known as The War on Drugs, and its … effects on human capital accumulation. The upsurge in violence is expected to have direct effects on individuals schooling …