"A number of empirical studies using cross-country data have found that poverty incidence responds very strongly to … economic growth. This paper explores the impact of economic growth as well as changes in income inequality on poverty reduction … positive effect on poverty reduction, income inequality has a sharply negative effect. Income inequality reduces the rate of …

"Indonesia has an impressive record of economic growth and poverty reduction over the past two decades. The growth-poverty …/kabupatens), however, reveal huge differences in poverty changes, subnational economic growth, and local attributes. Results of econometric …. Thus, while fostering economic growth is evidently crucial, a more complete poverty reduction strategy should take into …

"This paper provides an introduction to poverty-related data available in Sri Lanka and monetary measurements of … poverty carried out using this data. The lack of an official poverty line in Sri Lanka until June 2004 has over time generated … a number of poverty lines and corresponding poverty measures. While these poverty measures have provided a good base for …

The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh … Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Poverty in Bangladesh was earlier measured … by direct calorie intake (DCI) method. The food energy intake (FEI) method was first used in the Poverty Monitoring …

This paper reviews the poverty measuring practices, available measures of poverty, and economic growth figures of Nepal …. The currently available three poverty rates for fiscal years 1976/77, 1984/85, and 1995/96 are found to be not comparable … mainly due to change in methodology over time. Despite such methodological changes, the three poverty rates average around 40 …

equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the possible poverty and distributional effects of the removal of the QR and the reduction in … headcount poverty index, both the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap indices increase. The Gini coefficient rises as well … inputs in the sector, lower factor prices in agriculture, and lower factor incomes for these households. Thus, poverty in …

Poverty is a problem of extreme seriousness in any society that limits and hinders the path to social progress. Much … has been said about poverty, but the essential and inescapable point is that the real solution to the problem is to remove … argued that "clearer and more transparent definitions of poverty are essential prerequisites of any development policy that …