characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in … the last two decades, but poverty reduction has slowed in recent years. Although available indicators sometimes give … conflicting signals on distributional shifts, people in the middle of the income distribution have received the most benefit …

The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound … macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities … capacity at the beginning, made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy. …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … increase spending on health, education, and social safetynets; labor market reforms to boost the labor share of total income …

and income distribution outcomes, using data over three decades. Country distributions are calibrated by combining PPP GDP … per capita and income distribution from survey data. We apply the microeconomic concept of a social mobility function at … dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …

factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 …