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| Title: | | Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries  |
| Authors: | | Bibi, Sami Duclos, Jean-Yves Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics Discussion Papers 2011-34 |
| Abstract: | | This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the procedure is also robust to choosing over a class of weights to aggregate the impact of growth on the poor as well as over ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower-income African countries, countries that have witnessed different impacts of growth in the last two decades. |
| Subjects: | | Pro-poor growth absolute poverty relative poverty stochastic dominance |
| JEL: | | D63 I32 |
| Creative Commons License: | |  |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal - Discussion Papers
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