poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India … versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …