poverty. Before the development community can become more successful in designing and implementing poverty …The objective of this paper is to review a number of issues related to poverty, while taking stock of the ongoing … research. Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the dynamics of …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

education expenditure can be effective for poverty alleviation …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …

African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …This paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke's journey through the history of development … professional career as a development economist and his research interactions with major contributors to the discipline. The next …

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …

process of globalization affects different aspects and dimensions of poverty in the developing world. It examines how these … numerous channels interact, as the net effects on poverty depend on the relative strength of the positive and negative forces …