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by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …
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not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …
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We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
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evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …
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