countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes … poverty reduction as a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non-SSA, so … inequality. Nevertheless, the income?growth elasticity is substantially less for SSA, implying relatively small poverty …