Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute … and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of … Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty -- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents’ Poverty …

Afghanistan suffers from poverty and low human development aggravated by 23 years of conflict. In 2012, the population … in 2012. The transition led to investor and consumer wariness. Poverty reduction has stagnated at about 36 percent since … growth and poverty reduction.The country ranks 175 out of 187 countries in the human development index. …

This chapter begins with the dimensions of the poverty problem in developing countries, and then deals with conceptual … and measurement issues. It next discusses the nature, characteristics and correlates of rural and urban poverty. It looks … into the issue of gender and poverty, then turns to the relationship between poverty and population growth. It also …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in … suggest that there is credible evidence for poverty to have declined significantly since the 1990s but at a lesser speed than … growth in per capita GDP. More importantly, global poverty tends to respond much more strongly to shifts in sector of …

The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty has … concentrated on monetary poverty. This paper engages in the little-explored debate on the relationship between growth and … multidimensional poverty, by employing two novel, individual-based multidimensional poverty indices: the G-CSPI and G-M0. It relies on …