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1. Introduction. Poverty "is one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century facing the world" (Gweshengwe et al., Citation 2020, p. 1).In 2019, about 1.3 billion people in 101 countries were living in poverty (United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Citation 2019).For this reason, the 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals ...
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The consequences of poverty and inequality for growth have long preoccupied academics and policy-makers. This paper revisits the inequality-growth and poverty-growth links. Using a panel of 158 countries between 1960 and 2010, we find that the correlation of growth with poverty is consistently negative: A 10 p.p. decrease in the headcount poverty rate is associated with a subsequent increase ...
Inequality, poverty and economic growth
In both cases, inequality has a negative effect on economic growth at high levels of poverty. This effect decreases as poverty decreases and becomes insignificant. In both figures, inequality has a positive effect on growth below some threshold-about five per cent in Fig. 1 and about fifteen per cent in Fig. 4.
Poverty and Inequality: The Global Context
Section 1 discusses poverty and inequality data and presents evidence on levels and recent trends in poverty and inequality around the world. Section 2 turns to the issues involved in aggregating inequality indices across countries, in order to construct a meaningful measure of global inequality. Section 3 discusses the empirical relationship ...
Poverty, Inequality, and Fertility: The Contribution of Demographic
where the natural logarithm of the proportion of the population living in poverty ("poverty headcount") in country i at time t is predicted by the logarithm of a country's mean income, and where the income Gini typically serves as the measure of inequality. The equation also includes an interaction term between the last two variables to capture the fact that the poor in high-inequality ...
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speculative mode, we turn to the likely economic determinants of poverty and inequality changes. Section 5 offers some conclusions, and points to some promising research themes within this general topic. 1. Poverty and inequality around the world: A bird's eye view There has been a remarkable expansion in the availability of household surveys in
Global Poverty And Inequality: A Review Of The Evidence
Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita ...
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the relation between inequality and poverty, because they are different aspects of the income distribution (Bourguignon, 2003). In this paper, we analyze the inequality-growth and the poverty-growth links from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.1 We first present an overlapping-generations model with learning-by-doing and knowledge
The Nexus Between Pro-poor Growth, Inequality, Institutions and Poverty
In contrast to former investigations in the growth-poverty literature, this research constructs a panel vector autoregressive model to explore the interactive relationship between income inequality, institutional quality, inclusive growth and poverty of 82 low and middle income developing countries from 1996 to 2022. In addition, we employed the impulse response function tool, which is the ...
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APA has long been active in advocating for research that examines the causes and impact of poverty, economic disparity and related issues such as socioeconomic status, classism, ageism, unintended stereotypes and stigma to name a few. This new blog series on poverty, will evolve and continue offer commentary, anecdotes, and the science of ...
(PDF) Understanding the Relationship between Poverty and Inequality
Inequality is having both positive and negative impacts on poverty reduction in economic theory. The positive relationship is based on the assumption that wage inequality provides an incentive for ...
Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 25, Poverty, Inequality and Welfare contains 10 papers, some of which were presented at the third meeting on the 'Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility' at Queen Mary University of London in October 2016. The contributions address issues that are at the forefront of the discussion on ...
Revisiting Poverty, Human Development and Inequality in Democratic
South African society continues to be one of the most unequal societies in the world. The paper argues that the inability to sufficiently reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality results from the weak performance of the South African economy. In the same vein, it is the structure of the South African economy that has kept the levels of human ...
Does global warming worsen poverty and inequality? An updated review
1 Poverty and inequality are two intertwined, but different, issues. While poverty indicates income (or consumption) that is below a specified threshold, inequality reflects the uneven distribution of income among different population groups. For example, while rising temperatures can generally push more people into poverty by affecting their ...
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income distribution with poverty alleviation (Bourguignon, 2004): Pt −Pt−1 =Fn[(yt −yt−1 ),(Lt −. L. t. −1 )] where P is an indicator of poverty incidence. What has come to be known as the Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle illustrates that poverty reduction in an economy is determined by the rate of growth and changes in income ...
PDF Introduction Changing perspectives on poverty and inequality: The
on poverty and inequality: The contributions of the International Labour Review Gerry RODGERS* Abstract. This introduction presents a selection of articles from the Inter national Labour Review that illustrate how research on poverty and inequality has evolved over the past century. Receiving only occasional attention in the
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On average, a one per cent increase in per capita income reduced poverty by 1.7 per cent (see Figure 1).2. Among these 14 countries, the reduction in poverty was particularly spectacular in Vietnam, where poverty fell by 7.8 per cent a year between 1993 and 2002, halving the poverty rate from 58 per cent to 29 per cent.
Poverty and Inequality
Reducing poverty and inequality and improving opportunity are major national challenges. We analyze economic developments affecting low- and moderate-income people, including trends in poverty and income inequality. In addition, we analyze the extent to which economic security programs reduce poverty and racial inequities and help children succeed.
The Relevance of Inequality Research in Sociology for Inequality
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Analyzing the effects of financial inclusion on poverty and income
The growing issue of poverty and inequitable income distribution is a prevalent concern in many economies across the globe. It acts as an impediment to economic development, especially in the developing world. This study aims to explore the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income-inequality in five SAARC countries (2004-2021).
Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India
The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP .9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food transfers were instrumental ...
The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income
The financial meltdown of 2008, the subsequent Great Recession, and the Arab Spring sparked a new climate of activism. Public attention turned to poverty, unemployment, and inequality. UBI supporters suddenly had a much more welcoming environment for activism. By 2008, a national wave of UBI support had begun to swell in Germany.
South Africa can't crack the inequality curse. Why, and what can be done
China's is 0.38 and India's is 0.35. Russia's is similarly relatively low at 0.37. Brazil, like South Africa, has a much higher level of inequality at 0.53.
Africa can turn its poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges
Gatete says poverty, inequality, food insecurity, and unemployment contribute to poverty intensity as from 2019 to 2023 the number of people vulnerable to poverty rose by 28 per cent. However, as a solution he proposes Africa to enhance its climate resilience and embark on a greener growth path to generate decent jobs and contribute to global ...
America's Wealth Paradox: Unpacking Systemic Poverty and Inequality
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1. Introduction. Poverty "is one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century facing the world" (Gweshengwe et al., Citation 2020, p. 1).In 2019, about 1.3 billion people in 101 countries were living in poverty (United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Citation 2019).For this reason, the 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals ...
The endurance of poverty and rising levels of inequality impassions 'experts' and 'non-experts' alike. Discover the world's research. 25+ million members; 160+ million publication pages;
The consequences of poverty and inequality for growth have long preoccupied academics and policy-makers. This paper revisits the inequality-growth and poverty-growth links. Using a panel of 158 countries between 1960 and 2010, we find that the correlation of growth with poverty is consistently negative: A 10 p.p. decrease in the headcount poverty rate is associated with a subsequent increase ...
In both cases, inequality has a negative effect on economic growth at high levels of poverty. This effect decreases as poverty decreases and becomes insignificant. In both figures, inequality has a positive effect on growth below some threshold-about five per cent in Fig. 1 and about fifteen per cent in Fig. 4.
Section 1 discusses poverty and inequality data and presents evidence on levels and recent trends in poverty and inequality around the world. Section 2 turns to the issues involved in aggregating inequality indices across countries, in order to construct a meaningful measure of global inequality. Section 3 discusses the empirical relationship ...
where the natural logarithm of the proportion of the population living in poverty ("poverty headcount") in country i at time t is predicted by the logarithm of a country's mean income, and where the income Gini typically serves as the measure of inequality. The equation also includes an interaction term between the last two variables to capture the fact that the poor in high-inequality ...
speculative mode, we turn to the likely economic determinants of poverty and inequality changes. Section 5 offers some conclusions, and points to some promising research themes within this general topic. 1. Poverty and inequality around the world: A bird's eye view There has been a remarkable expansion in the availability of household surveys in
Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita ...
the relation between inequality and poverty, because they are different aspects of the income distribution (Bourguignon, 2003). In this paper, we analyze the inequality-growth and the poverty-growth links from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.1 We first present an overlapping-generations model with learning-by-doing and knowledge
In contrast to former investigations in the growth-poverty literature, this research constructs a panel vector autoregressive model to explore the interactive relationship between income inequality, institutional quality, inclusive growth and poverty of 82 low and middle income developing countries from 1996 to 2022. In addition, we employed the impulse response function tool, which is the ...
APA has long been active in advocating for research that examines the causes and impact of poverty, economic disparity and related issues such as socioeconomic status, classism, ageism, unintended stereotypes and stigma to name a few. This new blog series on poverty, will evolve and continue offer commentary, anecdotes, and the science of ...
Inequality is having both positive and negative impacts on poverty reduction in economic theory. The positive relationship is based on the assumption that wage inequality provides an incentive for ...
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 25, Poverty, Inequality and Welfare contains 10 papers, some of which were presented at the third meeting on the 'Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility' at Queen Mary University of London in October 2016. The contributions address issues that are at the forefront of the discussion on ...
South African society continues to be one of the most unequal societies in the world. The paper argues that the inability to sufficiently reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality results from the weak performance of the South African economy. In the same vein, it is the structure of the South African economy that has kept the levels of human ...
1 Poverty and inequality are two intertwined, but different, issues. While poverty indicates income (or consumption) that is below a specified threshold, inequality reflects the uneven distribution of income among different population groups. For example, while rising temperatures can generally push more people into poverty by affecting their ...
income distribution with poverty alleviation (Bourguignon, 2004): Pt −Pt−1 =Fn[(yt −yt−1 ),(Lt −. L. t. −1 )] where P is an indicator of poverty incidence. What has come to be known as the Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle illustrates that poverty reduction in an economy is determined by the rate of growth and changes in income ...
on poverty and inequality: The contributions of the International Labour Review Gerry RODGERS* Abstract. This introduction presents a selection of articles from the Inter national Labour Review that illustrate how research on poverty and inequality has evolved over the past century. Receiving only occasional attention in the
On average, a one per cent increase in per capita income reduced poverty by 1.7 per cent (see Figure 1).2. Among these 14 countries, the reduction in poverty was particularly spectacular in Vietnam, where poverty fell by 7.8 per cent a year between 1993 and 2002, halving the poverty rate from 58 per cent to 29 per cent.
Reducing poverty and inequality and improving opportunity are major national challenges. We analyze economic developments affecting low- and moderate-income people, including trends in poverty and income inequality. In addition, we analyze the extent to which economic security programs reduce poverty and racial inequities and help children succeed.
The issue of "doing something" about inequality has become an important question in policy and academic realms. In the past few years the Ford Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation (Gamoran 2013) have all launched initiatives on "reducing inequality" and call for new research that might lead to concrete knowledge-based strategies for achieving ...
Poverty and Health Disparities, A Historical Perspective. In the mid-1800's, Dr. James McCune Smith was the leading voice in the medical profession to argue that the health of the person was not primarily a consequence of their innate constitution, but instead reflected their intrinsic membership in groups created by a race structured society (15-17).
The growing issue of poverty and inequitable income distribution is a prevalent concern in many economies across the globe. It acts as an impediment to economic development, especially in the developing world. This study aims to explore the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income-inequality in five SAARC countries (2004-2021).
The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP .9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food transfers were instrumental ...
The financial meltdown of 2008, the subsequent Great Recession, and the Arab Spring sparked a new climate of activism. Public attention turned to poverty, unemployment, and inequality. UBI supporters suddenly had a much more welcoming environment for activism. By 2008, a national wave of UBI support had begun to swell in Germany.
China's is 0.38 and India's is 0.35. Russia's is similarly relatively low at 0.37. Brazil, like South Africa, has a much higher level of inequality at 0.53.
Gatete says poverty, inequality, food insecurity, and unemployment contribute to poverty intensity as from 2019 to 2023 the number of people vulnerable to poverty rose by 28 per cent. However, as a solution he proposes Africa to enhance its climate resilience and embark on a greener growth path to generate decent jobs and contribute to global ...
The Systemic Nature of Poverty. Poverty in America cannot be fully understood without acknowledging its systemic roots. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 34 million Americans, or 10.5% of the population, lived in poverty in 2019 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020).
poverty, how measure poverty, setting poverty lines, poverty indices and their comparisons, inequality measures, poverty profiles, the determinants of poverty, and how poverty analysis is linked to poverty reduction policies. The manual includes discussions of these topics with illustrations from different countries.
June 8, 2024. A rising tide and a bigger pie: Economic growth has long been considered such an obvious boon that it's pursued by governments across the world as a matter of course. But in 2016 ...