China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late … China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The … econometric tests support the view that the primary sector (mainly agriculture) has been the main driving force in poverty …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … the states where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of … growth, the national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth - across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …