Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269515 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P234
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
We propose a simple theoretical dual economy model to study the dynamics of an economy in which individuals move out of a poverty trap. These dynamics are characterized by growth acceleration. This model implies that poverty reduction could, under some circumstances, cause growth, rather than the other way around. We define a measurement of the growth impulse that could be triggered by independent exits from poverty and correlate it with observed growth accelerations. This correlation is both positive and significant, and it passes various robustness checks.
Subjects: 
growth acceleration
poverty trap
poverty reduction
JEL: 
O11
I32
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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