living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

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 …

sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …