The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural …

Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules for economic and political …

This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that a) the caste system and … economic inequality complement each other in the case of the poorer sections of Indian society, b) Indian society has …

a day. Although they are above the average poverty line for developing countries, many people in these new â …€œmiddle classes†may be insecure and at risk of falling into poverty. This paper outlines indicative data on trends relating to … poverty and the non poor by different expenditure groups, and critically reviews the recent literature that contentiously …

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …