-93, though experiences differed across regions and countries. There was no general tendency for inequality or polarization to …

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see … attributable to Asia's economic crisis. Economic growth contributed significantly to poverty reduction, but rising inequality … problem if it is to succeed in attacking poverty, and inequality. …

inequality. Although it highlights the importance of inequality reduction, it appears to be too general to be of much use for …

Do the poor face the same prospects for escaping poverty in high-inequality developing countries as in low-inequality … countries? Is it possible for inequality to be so great as to stifle prospects of reducing absolute poverty, even when other … distribution does affect how much the poor share in rising average incomes. Higher initial inequality tends to reduce growth …

poverty and inequality. He finds that growth represents an important means for reducing poverty in the developing world. When … inequality. In the data set income inequality rises on average less than 1.0 percent a year. Since income distributions are …

exclusion. This may then lead to a feedback mechanism whereby inequality in the incidence of public spending on education breeds … higher income inequality, thus generating multiple equilibria: with social exclusion and high inequality; and with social … inclusion and relatively low inequality. The author also shows that the latter equilibrium leads to higher long-run growth than …

assessment of how much impact on poverty in Bangladesh is expected from economic growth, and from changes in overall inequality. …

equivalent growth rate. This is a distribution-adjusted rate of growth that depends on the chosen level of inequality aversion … decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of …