Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …