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 …

the literature and contributes by: Showing that financial depth is negatively associated with headcount poverty, even …

by disproportionately boosting the income of the poor and therefore reduces poverty. This result is robust to controlling …

information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates …

government control and decentralized governance. Political decentralization has advanced in most countries. Subnational …

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 …