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 …

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …

The study examines the relationship between growth-inequality-poverty (GIP) triangle and crime rate under the premises … that there is (i) no/flat relationship between per capita income and crime rate; (ii) U-shaped relationship between poverty … decrease crime rate. Crime rate substantially increases income inequality while health expenditures decrease poverty headcount …

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

Various papers demonstrate the importance of inequality, poverty and the size of the middle class for economic growth … depending on poverty and inequality. Furthermore, we investigate how these returns difer for the poorer and for the richer part …, when estimating mean coefficients without accounting for poverty and inequality, the estimation is likely to suffer from a …

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 …

increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … that the increase in the poverty rate in the 1990s is associated with the increase in the relative food price, and the need …