The study examines the relationship between growth-inequality-poverty (GIP) triangle and crime rate under the premises … that there is (i) no/flat relationship between per capita income and crime rate; (ii) U-shaped relationship between poverty … decrease crime rate. Crime rate substantially increases income inequality while health expenditures decrease poverty headcount …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long … rural-urban migration. As a consequence, poverty tends to be fairly persistent over time. Moreover, low social mobility …, thereby reducing poverty and increasing long-run growth. …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually … superior and more policy-relevant measure than the much used "regular" growth elasticity of poverty reduction. We also test the … empirical relationship of these semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and find them to explain actual …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent … studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980's had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show … that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy …

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty … traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011. Although zero-growth poverty trap …