implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

Confronting theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty, this paper …-poorness (the bias in favor of the poor), all the sources of poverty reduction and the policies implications. The weak versus strong … class or a progressive growth, calling for redistribution policies and limiting the scope of growth. The poverty …

Recent development literature has placed priority on poverty reduction, and on possible growth enhancement from a more … than distribution neutral. In that context, this paper explores the relationship among growth, inequality and poverty, and … neutral path (‘trickle down’) for reducing poverty; 2) a redistributive growth path is always superior if a country’s per …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line … continued. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line. …

unequally distributed as in 1997. -- Pro-Poor Growth ; Inequality ; Welfare Measurement ; Multidimensionality of Poverty ; Latin …