conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

This paper investigates the effect of reducing inequality in household education, health and access to credit on pro … to credit registered relative pro-poor growth driven by a fall in inequality. However, health failed to record pro …-poor growth due to an increase in health-inequality at the bottom of the welfare distribution. In addition, equalizing education …

now much concern about whether impressive growth rates are yielding enough poverty reduction. The present debate about … their poverty lines is a reflection of this. In this second part of a two-part article (first part featured in January …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …