This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …

policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a … concludes that aid broadly works, that poverty would be higher in the absence of aid, and that the shortfall in aid during the …-up in aid and other development finance flows is now necessary if poverty is to be substantially reduced by 2015. …

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special growth-pulling or growth … been growing. This study focuses on the Hirschmanian channels through which sectoral growth can lead or support aggregate … economic growth, using input-output tables to investigate intersectoral linkages in the South African economy. Manufacturing is …

since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty … these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes … both regions and all three measures of poverty - headcount, gap, and squared gap - the paper finds the impact of GDP growth … on poverty reduction as a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non …

unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance … redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … and inequality, and by their distributional characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can be effective …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aspects of both congruence and conflict in the relationship amongst poverty, inequality, and welfare. The final substantive …

process of globalization affects different aspects and dimensions of poverty in the developing world. It examines how these … numerous channels interact, as the net effects on poverty depend on the relative strength of the positive and negative forces …