data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …

. Poverty also mainly rose in Africa and it rose in South Asia and Latin America about as often as it fell. Other results … economies to find evidence that high rates of growth in average living standards are associated with higher rates of poverty … trend in distributional effect for or against the poor. Overall there was a small decrease in poverty incidence in 1987 …

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see … attributable to Asia's economic crisis. Economic growth contributed significantly to poverty reduction, but rising inequality … problem if it is to succeed in attacking poverty, and inequality. …

household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors … registered urban resident has an income below a stipulated poverty line. There is little sign in the data of poverty traps due to … uninformative, or even deceptive, about impacts on poverty. The authors find that the majority of the poor are not receiving help …

By the widely used difference-in-difference method, the Southwest China Poverty Reduction Project had little impact on … choice of outcome indicator, the poverty line, and the matching method. There are larger poverty impacts at lower poverty …

poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed … in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of … little in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and rose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The two main proximate causes of …

region with the greatest aggregate poverty is either South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa, depending on the poverty line used …The authors assess the developing world's progress in reducing absolute-consumption poverty during 1981-91, using new … that the incidence of aggregate poverty changed little. The number of poor increased at the rate of population growth. The …

Official tabulations from household survey data suggest rising income inequality in post-reform rural China, a trend of … increase in inequality in 1985-90 vanishes when market-based valuation methods are used and allowances are made for regional … cost-of-living differences. The data revisions also suggest somewhat different explanations for rising inequality. Nonfarm …