The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …

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 …

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 …

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 …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …

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