explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible. …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. According to this definition there are three potential … sources of pro-poor growth: (1) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (2) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in … average incomes; and (3) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. The author empirically decomposes changes …

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

poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among …

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of … correlation between inequality and the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Some of the recent literature on the drivers of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …

uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to investigate some basic characteristics of shared prosperity …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty, and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a …

the issue of Sub-Saharan Africa's relatively low growth elasticity of poverty using a sample of 575 successive and …, income levels, and inequality, Sub-Saharan Africa consistently had a significantly lower growth elasticity of poverty … relative to other regions over this period. The lower growth elasticity of poverty, which has remained unchanged over time, is …