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 …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Poverty is an important policy issue in OECD countries and the recent crisis has made it even more pressing. This paper … highlights poverty rate differences across countries and reviews the various policies to tackle it. The OECD-wide poverty rate … poverty rate than working-age people and poverty is more wide-spread among women than men. Albeit boosting employment is …

hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …

This paper provides evidence that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty. An increase of … inequality and poverty. An important implication of these findings is that policies that reduce corruption will most likely … reduce income inequality and poverty as well. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002 …

It has been shown in prior research that increased economic growth reduces poverty. Authors have also found that the … effect of growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on poverty growth has either diminished or remained unchanged over time, and … economic expansion in the 1980s in the United States had no affect on poverty. Using a formal error-correction model, we find …

subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty … into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and residual components are described. In parametric approaches the dynamics … measures and expectations about their impacts on earnings inequality and poverty reductions. …