, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …

. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …

This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …