poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985-99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the …