growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …

While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic … growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution … processes. The study looks at trends in various statistics on poverty and income distribution, and then examines how disparities …

role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

The Philippines has set an ambitious goal of becoming a predominantly middle-class society free of poverty by 2040 … as poverty reduction or redistribution. This background paper for the 2024 Philippine Institute for Development Studies …-based definition that delineates the middle-class as households with per capita incomes between 2 to 12 times the official poverty line …