sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …

Most of those Russian adults who feel that they are poor are not classified as such in the poverty statistics, and most …

data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate-a poverty trap. However, the paper …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …