When is growth pro-poor? [electronic resource] : cross-country evidence / prepared by Aart Kraay.

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Open Knowledge Repository)
Main Author: Kraay, Aart (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2004.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/04/47.
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