Datt, Gaurav - In: Journal of development economics 38 (1992) 2, pp. 275-295
Redistribution alleviated poverty in India, though growth was quantitatively more important. Improved distribution … countervailed the adverse effect of monsoon failure in the late 1980s on rural poverty. However, worsening distribution in Brazil …, associated with the macroeconomic shocks of the 1980s, mitigated poverty alleviation through the limited growth that occurred …