been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …, notably infrastructure and enterprise finance, have yet to be resolved. Agricultural productivity remains low. And without new …

living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

. Economic activities have shifted from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the high-productivity industrial sector and … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

have been associated with persistent challenges such as lack of diversification, poor working conditions, low productivity …

colonial and post-colonial Botswana. We show that income inequality started rising in the 1940s and peaked in the mid-1970s …

productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC …

. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …