The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

poverty reduction. However, these positive dynamics started to revert from 2015, with per capita growth rates getting close to … zero and household real consumption reducing in all areas of the country. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period … inequality for Mozambique and their trends over the last 25 years. Using real per capita consumption as the main welfare …

In this paper, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality. This is defined as the sum of the … contributions of its members, with these contributions computed as the impact on inequality of a small increase in the population … various attractive properties. I also discuss alternative approaches used in the literature of factor inequality …

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth … than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …