This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …

poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 … closely related to the age-old debate on growth versus direct welfare interventions as instruments for countering poverty. The … paper analyzes past trends on poverty and tries to shed new light on this old debate …

interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ( "merit" ). Both targeting mechanisms increased enrollment and …

Child labor is pervasive across sub-Saharan Africa. The common assumption is that monetary poverty is its most …