The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth … as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired … consequences for poverty.The importance of this topic, and the continuing controversies surrounding it, prompted UNU/WIDER to …

many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when … growth, and therefore poverty reduction through growth. This paper finds evidence of a concave relationship between …

the time perspective taken. The implications of these effects for poverty are explored, and shown in principle to be … transmitted to poverty groups. The paper concludes that rigorous empirical research on this subject is long overdue …