Growth, inequality, and poverty are central elements of the development process. However the mutual effects and … framework we derive some fundamental relations between growth, inequality and poverty. In the empirical part we test for unit … long-run dynamics for income growth and changes in inequality and poverty in a panel of 114 developing countries and six …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008—from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing the … percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. <p> Poverty reduction was uneven …

Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …

those countries. Economic growth during 1995-2006 is regressed against poverty, inequality and human development variables …. The main findings are that growth did not reduce poverty and that income inequality, measured as a reduction of Gini …

coexistence of acceptable levels of development and, at the same time, worrying poverty conditions of broad groups of people … continue to have, in the current time as in past decades, high levels of poverty and low rates of development. In the case of … Mexico, it was observed an inverse relation, based on HDI and FGT indexes, between development and poverty. Therefore, the …

The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …