living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction … strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes. The report seeks to … the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary … change effect on labor productivity growth (LPG) than the high-income and middle-income regions. Second, the structural …, and FDI for designing policies in order to reduce disparities in productivity growth, and hence economic growth, which …

,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …