been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …, notably infrastructure and enterprise finance, have yet to be resolved. Agricultural productivity remains low. And without new …

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 …

productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC …

in part by productivity growth and increasing competitiveness of agriculture (i.e., declining cost per unit output … income. Nonetheless, poverty incidence among agricultural households has been falling, with an acceleration in the decline … since 2012. Consistent with rising income, poverty among agricultural households has been falling, with the pace of decline …

. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …