its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

trend in poverty headcount rate from 41.8% in 1996 to 30.9% in 2004 and 25.2% in 2011. This result is attributed to labour … conventional IG explanation highlights the contribution of remittances to household income and poverty reduction. However …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education … as well as family planning services, and government political leadership to promote smaller families. -- poverty …

This paper evaluates the effects of different growth and redistributive policies on poverty and growth using a two … for an appropriate choice of strategy of growth with redistribution for removing poverty …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …

poverty reduction shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural growth in the Philippines, but agricultural investments can be …