evidence. This paper contributes to providing new worldwide evidence on the poverty reduction effect of democracy which we … countries from 1995 to 2015 shows that democracy does reduce poverty, although the size of the effect varies to poverty at … different poverty lines. Further studies show that the poverty reduction effect of democracy is robust to a number of …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal distribution. We also test the empirical relationship of … the derived semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and them to explain changes in poverty very … well (in fact, better than a related study by Bourguignon (2003) that studied the regular growth elasticity of poverty …