This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other … household head to the education of the most educated member. The paper finds poverty to be most severe and persistent for … perpetuating poverty. …

these spatial distributions of rural population influence poverty directly or indirectly via income growth in 83 developing … countries from 2000 to 2012. The analysis finds no evidence of a direct impact on poverty, but there is a significant indirect … impact via the elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to growth. Reducing poverty requires targeting rural populations …