the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor … the relationship among trade, poverty and the structural transformation of the Philippine economy …

mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking … applications would play a substantial role in responding to the challenges of immiserizing growth, inequality and poverty in …

fails tobring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and toreduce inequality …

incorrectly. Similarly, poverty is a trail which can bring great rewards if borne with patience and prayer, and also cause great …

Using a CGE model, this study analyses the impact of trade liberalization on poverty at the household level taking … production of textile and leather products. Poverty shows a slight increase in both scenarios. At the national level, a complete … tariff cut results in an increase in poverty by 2.8 percent, while a uniform tariff scheme raises poverty by 2.3 percent …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty …

This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and … then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being … that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …