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 … applied to three comparable household surveys from Rwanda (EICV data for the years 1999-2001, 2005- 2006, and 2010-2011), a …

Rwanda is renowned among African countries for the rapid advances achieved in its population's standard of living … 2000 and 2010, the percentage of people living in poverty fell from 59 to approximately 46 percent and then to 38 percent … by 2016 (NISR: national poverty line). Yet progress has not always been even, and challenges endure. With the COVID-19 …

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 …