population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …. While high economic growth rates in China and India may lift millions out of poverty, high population growth and stagnation … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that …

This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia. Economic growth especially in rural areas remains and farming communities is central to poverty … ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by … about 50 percent in the past two decades, any further reduction of poverty will be more difficult, because of high diversity …

global and regional inequality and poverty, and find decreasing global poverty and inequality during the time period. By …

Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …