A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India

A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India

Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth; at the outset of the reform process there were many disto...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
consumption expenditures
economic growth
household consumption
household income
household surveys
human development
income
income distribution
inequality
international poverty line
macroeconomic stability
national poverty
national poverty lines
poor
poor people
poverty headcount index
poverty line
poverty measures
poverty reduction
social policies
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13499

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