Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

Most of those Russian adults who feel that they are poor are not classified as such in the poverty statistics, and most …

sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

economic growth and initial conditions interact to influence how much growth reduced consumption poverty. The elasticities of … measured poverty to farm yields and development spending did not differ significantly across states. But the elasticities of … poverty to (urban and rural) non-farm output varied appreciably, and the differences were quantitatively important to the …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and … poverty will be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution will promote aggregate economic growth. We …. While we find evidence of non-linearity, there is no sign of a dynamic poverty trap. Existing private and social …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …