Empirical work in Bangladesh shows that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas - and is associated with … poverty more. Most empirical work on how growth affects poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets … Bangladesh, where regional panel estimates indicate that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas. Growth is …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the inter-state and inter-regional disparities in poverty incidence and … investigate whether regional disparities are also present in the incidence of poverty and, in consumption levels of the population … on two sets of variables; average per capita consumption of the households and the poverty measures of the population in …

that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no …. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area "poverty maps" based on census data enriched by relationships estimated … precise estimates of poverty and inequality for areas as small as 20,000 households. In this paper we argue that to usefully …