The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

States of India. We go on to present an analysis of the current status and the Policy Frameworks underlying the top … performing States of India, as measured by the ASEPI …

population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …. While high economic growth rates in China and India may lift millions out of poverty, high population growth and stagnation … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that …

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa …, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly …-being, poverty, growth or aid effectiveness. However, there has been little empirical analysis that tests these relationships …