Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … off, prior inequalities in various dimensions handicapped poverty reduction in both Brazil and India. Brazil's recent … reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty …? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 …

in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … growth, the national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend … aggregate economic growth is only one element of an effective strategy for poverty reduction in India. The sectoral and …