While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …

Most of those Russian adults who feel that they are poor are not classified as such in the poverty statistics, and most …

economic growth and initial conditions interact to influence how much growth reduced consumption poverty. The elasticities of … measured poverty to farm yields and development spending did not differ significantly across states. But the elasticities of … poverty to (urban and rural) non-farm output varied appreciably, and the differences were quantitatively important to the …

sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and … poverty will be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution will promote aggregate economic growth. We …. While we find evidence of non-linearity, there is no sign of a dynamic poverty trap. Existing private and social …