Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …

In this paper, we examine the aid-growth-poverty relation by using quantile regression, which enables us to estimate … the impact of growth and growth enhancing policies at different quantiles in the conditional distribution of poverty. The … quantile of the dependent variable. We find that growth in average income and other growth enhancing policies have …

higher than the growth rate, because the poor cannot catch-up with the rich. We argue that when the return on political … economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in African countries, inequality in … underpinnings of exogenous growth models, catch-up may not be so apparent. Implications for the corresponding upward bias in …

increases when the return of capital is higher than the growth rate, because the poor cannot catch-up with the rich. We argue … that, when the return of political economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in … automatic exchange of bank information. Hence, contrary to theoretical underpinnings of exogenous growth models, catch-up may …

links between various macroeconomic variables related to growth and poverty reduction …

went into agriculture, forestry, and fishing, while education received 10.3 per cent, population and reproductive health 11 …