understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …

poverty levels. At this rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully … like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end … extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub …

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 … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

This study traces the interactions between economic growth, income inequality and consumption poverty in a sample of … that experiences have varied: some countries have seen sharp falls in income poverty; others have witnessed marked … rates than average income. But the aggregate numbers hide significant and systematic distributional effects which have …

liberalization to increase income inequality. …Inequality has risen in many countries over the last two decades, especially in the transition economies, but also in … many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when …

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 …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and …

consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … poor are really maxims regarding the nature of stochastic processes that underlay the income/wellbeing paths of groups of … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …