Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …

high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …