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| Title: | | Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth  |
| Authors: | | Negre, Mario |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research 2010,47 |
| Abstract: | | Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should disproportionally benefit the poor. The paper proposes an operational definition of pro-poor growth that restricts it to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It is then shown that this component measures how pro-poor growth is over a given period based on the above mentioned definition. The paper further presents several indicators for evaluating and monitoring the 'pro-poorness' of growth over time and concludes with an empirical illustration for the case of Honduras. |
| Subjects: | | pro-poor growth income inequality poverty decomposition Honduras |
| JEL: | | C16 D31 D63 I32 O15 O54 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-284-9 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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