ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EQUALITY IN REDUCING POVERTY

Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Using Human Capabilities: Recapturing Economic Growth and Reducing Human Poverty

85 Building and using human capabilities effectively represent the engine of sustainable growth and poverty reduction. At the same time, economic growth (or lack of it) influences prospects for enhancing human development, of which persistent poverty is the antithesis. Thus, achieving sustained and equitable economic growth is intimately connected with both the process and the goals of human de...

Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction through Growth

Section 1 : Poverty Poverty and economic growth

Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers? Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT

Economic Growth, Taxation and Poverty

In 1993 I went to a UNESCO/CROP conference in Paris organised around the theme: Economic Growth and its Significance for Poverty Reduction. The conference participants were an unusual blend of academic disciplines with historians, sociologists, economists, psychologists and political scientists, with a range of perspectives from Marxist to New Right. They came from countries at all stages of ec...