been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

impact of a larger middle class appears to be more robust than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher gross …

The international effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 has given fresh prominence to the idea of … growth and poverty reduction will require changes from the bottom up rather than a big push from development planners at the …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

link between sources of growth and meso-micro level development and the knee-jerk reaction type(s) that we adopt as an …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the … last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The … worth considering whether there are any lessons from Brazil's development policies for Sub-Saharan African countries. …