In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of … on the headcount measure of poverty incidence for Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines over the period from … economic determinants of changes in poverty incidence. …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …

This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to … understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …

increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … that the increase in the poverty rate in the 1990s is associated with the increase in the relative food price, and the need …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a … concludes that aid broadly works, that poverty would be higher in the absence of aid, and that the shortfall in aid during the …-up in aid and other development finance flows is now necessary if poverty is to be substantially reduced by 2015. …

. Doch schrumpft die Mittelschicht aufgrund einer Polarisierung der Einkommensverteilung wirklich? Während empirische Studien …. A selection of polarization indices are presented for different poverty and affluence thresholds based on net household …) show an increase in income polarization since the late nineties independent of the choice of poverty and affluence …