urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick- start their economies in response …€œgreen†economic growth, which can not only provide the new markets and jobs needed immediately for alleviating poverty, but also …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …

same time, a growing number of developing countries have initiated cash transfers as a response to poverty, and these …

evolution of debates relating to the impact of globalisation on poverty and economic growth in developing countries. A stock …

debated between different ideologies and interest groups, and increasingly engaging with the world. The ultimate result is … it has not reduced poverty sufficiently. The benefits of growth have not been evenly distributed, but relatively …

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

Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth … elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural …

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 …

implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php]. …