in Africa underscoring the significance of social protection in a poverty reduction strategy. …Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during … the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

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 … wages as the driving force behind poverty declines. Lower dependency ratios also helped to reduce poverty, particularly in …

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 … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …

The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …

After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue … recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and civil conflicts in Africa? This paper "stress tests" African … economies. The findings indicate that Africa's long-term growth is fairly impervious to a prolonged recession in high …

, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. A more liberalized trade regime is argued to change … relative factor prices in favor of the more abundant factor. If poverty and relative low income stem from abundance of labor …, greater trade openness should lead to higher labor prices and a decrease in poverty. However, should the re-allocation of …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

, microsimulation models (both the envelope and discrete choice models), computable general equilibrium modeling, and approaches that … link computable general equilibrium models to microsimulation models. Explicit modeling facilitates the construction of …

, 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 … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …