the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

Growth, inequality, and poverty are central elements of the development process. However the mutual effects and … framework we derive some fundamental relations between growth, inequality and poverty. In the empirical part we test for unit … long-run dynamics for income growth and changes in inequality and poverty in a panel of 114 developing countries and six …

relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and …Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our …

those countries. Economic growth during 1995-2006 is regressed against poverty, inequality and human development variables …. The main findings are that growth did not reduce poverty and that income inequality, measured as a reduction of Gini … income inequality. However, this result does not identify a “U-shaped” Kuznets curve because even after a consistent period …

estimate income and inequality (semi-)elasticities of poverty for the 2$ a day and 1.25$ a day poverty lines. The models fit …The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty …

Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the … capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ. The construction of a theoretical framework highlighting stylized fact and the … as capital flight and; (b) The capital flight contributes to improving the level of poverty in Africa. Overall, we can …

The estimates of the extent, distribution and trend of global income poverty provided in the World Bank's World … Development Reports for 1990 and 2000/01 are neither meaningful nor reliable. The Bank uses an arbitrary international poverty … line unrelated to any clear conception of what poverty is. It employs a misleading and inaccurate measure of purchasing …

The recent revision of the World Bank’s global poverty estimates based on a new $1.25 (2005 PPP) poverty line …. In the short term, less weight should be given to the Bank’s poverty estimates in monitoring the first MDG. In the longer … requires global institutional coordination. Until it is implemented, the crisis in the monitoring of global consumption poverty …

subtle insights into the relationships between gender and poverty. …