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 …

) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

This paper uses several decomposition of poverty and poverty changes to identify factors explaining recent changes in … absolute income and consumption poverty in Poland during 1998−2008. Shapley decompositions of poverty changes into growth and … redistribution components show that fast economic growth was the main source of a radical fall in absolute poverty since 2005 …

poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …

The debate about the consequences of economic growth on poverty and welfare was recently rekindled in South Africa by … linked to a nationally representative household survey to assess the poverty and economic consequences of a higher economic … growth scenario. The main findings are that higher economic growth induces reductions in poverty both in the short and long …