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 …

This article analyses the relation between economic growth and poverty in Uruguay, considering the period 1991 …-2006. The economic literature about poverty and growth has become very profuse during the last years. In this article, we … (growth incidence curves and poverty decompositions) to consider the link between poverty and economic growth in different sub-periods …

and long run GDP growth, and links these results with poverty incidence. Our simulation exercise takes into account … extra 0.89 and 1.80 percentage points in terms of long-run GDP growth and permanent reduction in poverty incidence …

Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent … studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980's had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show … that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

poverty reduction shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural growth in the Philippines, but agricultural investments can be …

consensus that incidence of poverty with reference to the calorie intake criterion has declined since the mid-1970s to about 35 … assessments? What are its implications for the observed trends in poverty estimates in the context of dynamic structural changes … in the rural economy? The study concludes that the estimates do not show a real reduction in poverty but only a reduction …

Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … focus on the poverty reducing potential of agricultural productivity accentuate from the fact that the incidence of poverty …

The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in …, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by … changes in inequality accounting for almost all the changes in poverty. The elasticity of poverty with respect to both 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 …