This book reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region with poverty and human development since … the mid-1980s. It finds that poverty rates did not decline by much during this period while health and education … indicators improved substantially. The stagnation of poverty rates is ascribed to the stagnation of the region's economies during …

Why are some people poor? Why does absolute poverty persist despite substantial economic growth? What types of late … economic development or 'catch-up' capitalism are associated with different poverty outcomes? Global Poverty addresses these … apparently simple questions and the extent to which the answers may be shifting. One might expect global poverty to be focused in …

origins of poverty and growth in India / Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart -- Explaining pro-poor growth …-poor growth in Vietnam: miracle or model? / Rainer Klump -- Ghana: the challenge of translating sustained growth into poverty …

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), 'An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty … Index', Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81-86 -- 2. Amartya Sen (1976), 'Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement … Decomposable Poverty Measures', Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761-66 -- 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), 'On the Measurement of Poverty …