Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

addressed in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with growth and poverty. Though the intertwined relationship among … growth, poverty and inequality has already been hypothesized by Kuznets (1955), it is still questioned by many other scholars …. To reveal the relationship among growth, poverty and inequality in the aftermath of MDGs’ failures for better …

(SDGs) approved in 2015, it is clear that poverty will be far from eradicated by then. Absolute poverty is concentrated in … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and overwhelmingly in 12-15 countries where progress in poverty alleviation is largely … will be larger than the entire population of the European Union. While inequality matters for poverty reduction, it is the …

journal Ius Inter Gentes), argues the links between improving human and legal rights protections for people living in poverty … and success in ending poverty. It then examines approaches to achieving improvement in human and legal rights of people … living in poverty, illustrating with examples from a variety of NGO programs. Previously the article has not been available …

substantial and extensive. The same cannot be said on the relationship between financial development and poverty reduction … relationship between the capital account dimension of financial liberalisation and poverty for developing countries for the period … alleviate poverty, and also whether the extent to which capital account liberalisation affects poverty depends on the quality of …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-523; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

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 …