The US rural poverty rate has been consistently higher than the urban rate for several decades. One question might be …. Using annual 1985-2015 data and regressing both poverty rates on the national unemployment rate and the Gini coefficient …

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline …