This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the … business freedom and / or trade freedom, greater the economic growth. This will ultimately reduce poverty in the country. …

This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to … understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called ?Burkinab? Growth-Poverty-Paradox?, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by … economies have experienced very heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region have had a … rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income …

This paper evaluates poverty sensitivity to growth in mean incomes and distributional changes in Italy across its … Italy to estimate the growth incidence curves and the income and inequality elasticities of poverty. Growth strongly … determines the patterns of poverty; however, inequality appears to have strikingly characterized it as well. A 1% increase in …

Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …