This paper examines a robust nonparametric methodology for decomposition of change in poverty into growth and … redistribution components. The decomposition is exact, symmetric and free of residual terms. It is equivalent to the Shapley value … decomposition in this two-component case. We avoid parametric assumptions about the underlying distributions and Lorenz functions …

telecommunications sector has played an important role in stimulating economic growth in the country during the last few years, with an … annual growth rate higher than that of other sectors. This contribution is supported to a great extent by the rapid diffusion … the impact of the sectors on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without further scrutiny of what sources of growth …

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 …

, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …

An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall … output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is observed that the growth in area of … centered on increasing productivity through the expansion of area under irrigation and HYVs [GIPE WP]. …

to changes in the distribution of income. It is observed that, in India, rapid growth led to a significant decline in …

growth on poverty is estimated to have been greater if inequality remained constant. It is also noted that the impacts of … economic growth on poverty vary across different ethnic groups. Finally, regression decompositions of within inequality have …

This paper decomposes changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components, and employs several pro-poor growth … concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … ‘trickle-down’ situation, which the poor have received proportionately less benefits from growth than the non-poor. All pro …

private international organizations, such the Hodrick-smoothing Presscott and Beveridge-Nelson decomposition. The results …

majority and minority increased over the periods. Thirdly, the study shows that the pure effect of economic growth on poverty … is estimated to have been greater if inequality remained constant. It is noted that the impacts of economic growth vary …