poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …-country allocation patterns among the projects of development institutions. This paper proposes a new geographic targeting indicator and …

poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

Existing empirical studies on the relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income … inequality and their use of cross-country data sets. Schipper and Hoogeveen use two sets of small area welfare estimates …-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …

affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …, inequality can also affect growth through poverty, an indirect channel that has not been explicitly analyzed. This paper … inequality and poverty to an otherwise standard set of growth determinants. Given inequality, the correlation of growth with …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was …

, particularly its relationship with overall economic growth and inequality. Initial estimates using this dataset of 79 countries … inequality, the paper discusses two main ideas. First, shared prosperity is strongly correlated with overall prosperity implying … of opportunity. Growing evidence suggests that improving access for all and reducing inequality of opportunities …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effective for poverty reduction than growth …