growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and …

losses, and is widely perceived to have a comparably significant effect in terms of greater inequality and increased poverty …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

Resource-rich economies and ethnically divided societies are linked to higher income inequality at the macro level. Our … goal is to empirically examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … poverty. We also examine three alternative policies to the resource dividend (RD) policy. The results indicate that the RD …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …