Economic Growth and Poverty

Edited by Nanak Kakwani, Former Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia, Hyun Hwa Son, Principle Evaluation Specialist, Independent Evaluation Development, Asian Development Bank, Philippines

• Contents:Research ReviewNanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son1. Simon Kuznets (1955), ‘Economic Growth and Income Inequality’, American Economic Review, XLV (1), March, 1–282. Simon Kuznets (1963), ‘Quantitative Aspects of Economic Growth of Nations: VIII, Distribution of Income by Size’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 11 (2), January, 1–803. Montek S. Ahluwalia (1976), ‘Income Distribution and Development: Some Stylized Facts’, American Economic Review, 66 (2), May, 128–354. Montek S. Ahluwalia (1976), ‘Inequality, Poverty and Development’, Journal of Development Economics, 3 (4), December, 307–425. Sudhir Anand and S. M. R. Kanbur (1993), ‘The Kuznets Process and Inequality-Development Relationship’, Journal of Development Economics, 40 (1), February, 25–526. Sudhir Anand and S. M. R. Kanbur (1985), ‘Poverty Under the Kuznets Process’, Economic Journal, Supplement: Conference Papers, 95, 42–507. 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