This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC … contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

poverty. We discuss the pathways by which a higher share of the Manufacturing sector in GDP may bring about lower poverty … incidence while a higher share of Services may have the opposite effect. We first compare the poverty reduction experiences of … income countries that the Manufacturing share in GDP exhibits a significant negative association with poverty incidence while …