This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate … greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither …This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and … does it find any systematic link from fast growth to increasing inequality. The level of initial income inequality is not a …

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 …

than with non-oil growth. Employment was the most important source of income growth for all deciles. Poorer households … effectiveness and efficiency of social transfers; they were found to be almost evenly distributed among income deciles and played a … negligible role in the income growth of the poorest households. …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …

conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional 'growth is good for the poor … stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015. -- This volume …

for climate research and other studies at global, regional and country level. Based on the global income distribution and … 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 …

many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when … growth, and therefore poverty reduction through growth. This paper finds evidence of a concave relationship between … liberalization to increase income inequality. …