How poverty fell
Poverty has been declining in recent decades.
A superb and extensive article in which the authors contribute to the analysis of the causes and contexts in which poverty has been declining in recent decades.
Considering these measures together, no one pathway out of poverty predominates. For almost all countries and dimensions of activity, only a minority of the households that exited poverty did so while changing their primary means of earning a living. And households that entered poverty often changed their activities in ways similar to those that exited. For example, the share of poverty-entering households that switched from agriculture to non-agriculture is 53%-114% the corresponding share of poverty-exiting households. An exception applies in the more advanced economies of Mexico and South Africa, where progress out of poverty was closely associated with transitions from self- to wage-employment and entry into poverty with the opposite.
How Poverty Fell, V.Armentano, P. Niehaus, T. Vogl