economic growth and initial conditions interact to influence how much growth reduced consumption poverty. The elasticities of … measured poverty to farm yields and development spending did not differ significantly across states. But the elasticities of … poverty to (urban and rural) non-farm output varied appreciably, and the differences were quantitatively important to the …

capital, support for rural livelihood strategies, and engendering statistics and poverty monitoring. …

regard, the present study examined the role of institutional conditions in the impact of economic growth on poverty in middle … will reduce poverty to a greater extent. Research limitations/implications: In this study, we faced data limitations on … poverty, and many countries did not have continuous annual data. Originality/value: To my knowledge, no study has been …

between this remarkable growth rate and poverty reduction is neither obvious nor simple. This paper focuses on the elasticity … of poverty with respect to GDP growth at the sectoral level and takes into account the fact that economic growth may … affect poverty directly as well as indirectly through sectoral labor share intensity. It develops a methodology that sheds …

problems with the current $1-a-day poverty counts, makes some suggestions for improvement, and identifies issues that need … further research. World poverty numbers are calculated in two stages. At the first, or international stage, a world poverty … line is set and used to derive comparable poverty lines for each country. At the second, or domestic stage, the poverty …

The development of the small and medium enterprise sector is believed to be crucial for economic growth and poverty …

It has been shown in prior research that increased economic growth reduces poverty. Authors have also found that the … effect of growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on poverty growth has either diminished or remained unchanged over time, and … economic expansion in the 1980s in the United States had no affect on poverty. Using a formal error-correction model, we find …

Changes in the extent of poverty are affected not only by growth in the mean income but also by changes in the … distribution of income. The effect of these two factors can be separately measured by decomposing the total change in poverty. In … the adverse effects of growth on poverty during the first period, 1998-99 to 2001-02. Alternatively, the role of growth …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …