Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … detailed perspective on the evolution of rural poverty. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of FOD results to indicator …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …