Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …