"A number of empirical studies using cross-country data have found that poverty incidence responds very strongly to economic growth. This paper explores the impact of economic growth as well as changes in income inequality on poverty reduction using provincial data from Thailand over the period...

Poverty in Sri Lanka is still largely a rural phenomenon. Between 1986 and 1991, national poverty rates declined modestly, almost entirely because of a decline in rural poverty. During the same period, urban poverty increased. Poorer households tend to have higher dependency ratios, fewer years...