This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances on poverty alleviation and income distribution are found to be stronger when the more rigorous, counterfactual income …We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …

This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to … understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …

leverage to promote economic catching- up and poverty alleviation in the countries they govern. …