Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution … poverty would be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution would promote aggregate economic growth. The … is no sign of a dynamic poverty trap. The authors argue that existing private and social arrangements in this setting …

to study the causes of poverty. They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using … pooled state-level data for 1957-91. They found that poverty was reduced by higher agricultural yields, above-trend growth in … poverty. Initial conditions also mattered. States that started the period with better infrastructure and human resources …

In theory, it is possible that the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies, is attributable to …

. Poverty also mainly rose in Africa and it rose in South Asia and Latin America about as often as it fell. Other results … economies to find evidence that high rates of growth in average living standards are associated with higher rates of poverty … trend in distributional effect for or against the poor. Overall there was a small decrease in poverty incidence in 1987 …

consumption. The authors find that the correlation between poverty and household size vanishes in Pakistan when the size … poverty. The authors show that the incidence of severe child stunting is more elastic to household size than their Engel curve … poverty - notably the extent to which it is used to inform policies aimed at promoting child welfare - may go some way toward …

household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …