This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long …-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American … rural-urban migration. As a consequence, poverty tends to be fairly persistent over time. Moreover, low social mobility …

Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent … studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980's had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show … that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …

The eradication of poverty as the main target of Sustainable Development Goal 1 by 2030 is the subject of this paper … related to poverty as a multidimensional concept. Further, the paper investigate concept of poverty and gives overview poverty … poverty has also a spatial dimension in all these countries. As part of this paper, the issues of the situation with poverty …

of human welfare, particularly poverty and inequality. Combined with major improvements in the coverage and quality of …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour …This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …