's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

. Economic activities have shifted from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the high-productivity industrial sector and … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC …