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Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience
Asian Development Bank, 2007This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.DocumentInclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications
Asian Development Bank, 2007Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.DocumentAchieving pro-poor development in a globalising world
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The gap between the richest and poorest people in the world is unacceptably large. The world’s ten richest people earn about as much from their wealth in a year as the annual earnings of the entire population of Tanzania. What can be done to curb this excessive inequality and reduce poverty?DocumentThe challenge of inequality
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This issue of Poverty in Focus attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the importance of reducing inequality in its various forms, and thus to policies and programmes that will more effectively reduce poverty and social injustice.DocumentThe challenges of a changing population in Asia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Following current trends, Asia’s population will grow by 757 million people to reach 4.3 billion by 2025. This growing population will be unevenly distributed across Asia’s three regions: South-Asia, South-East Asia and East Asia. This has implications for the environment, education, the role of women and social security.DocumentPublic investment and poverty reduction: lessons from China and India
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007This article argues that public investments in rural areas have contributed significantly to agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in China and India.DocumentHas world poverty really fallen during the 1990s?
Social Science Research Network, 2005This paper evaluates the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing world.Using two international poverty lines ($1.08/day and $2.15/day 1993 PPP) the authors argue that under many assumptions, the developing wDocumentA new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.DocumentRural and urban dynamics and poverty: evidence from China and India
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005In this paper, the authors examine the history of the relationship between the rural and urban sectors in China and India, including the development of policies that influenced this relationship and their impact on poverty in China and India.DocumentCrop wars: can obstacles to genetically modified crops be removed?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Controversy continues over safety standards for biotechnology products such as genetically modified (GM) crops. Although benefits have been documented for a number of GM crops, most developing countries have denied permission to plant GM seeds.Pages