greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower … national growth. Given these trade-offs, we conclude that the urbanization's benefits argue against an agro …Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate …

story. While in the majority of countries growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …

In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of … these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the … rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial and services sectors. It develops a time series of available data …

Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining … social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …

interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U … result, the relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. This simple theoretical model is a …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …

population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …