Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …

We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for …

This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of … by three indicators related to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and then examine its effect on poverty reduction at the … statistically significant and robust effect on decreasing the poverty ratio. …