We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus …

-American Development Bank's Poverty and Inequality Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments' work in … the area of poverty reduction, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities … so as to increase their poverty reduction impact. The fourth issue of Equidad contains the following articles: The IDB …

poverty. The analyses are based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which provides detailed annual …

evolution of rural poverty and inequality in Latin America since the early 1980's. The authors conclude that after 20 years of … changes both in poverty rates and in the distribution of income. The authors discuss the territorial dimension of inequality … experienced an improvement (relative to the national average changes) in income, income distribution, and poverty rates. The …

the same period, the headcount index of poverty fell from 43.2 percent in 1993 to 36.4 percent in 1999, and the poverty … gap, which measures the depth of poverty, fell from 16.2 percent in 1993 to 12.4 percent in 1999, hence, growth is poverty … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …