IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/adrxxx/v18y2000i02ns0116110500000087.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How Good is Growth?

Author

Listed:
  • James Foster
  • Miguel Székely

Abstract

This paper argues that the use of different methodologies for characterizing the well-being of the poor can lead to totally different views about the relationship between economic growth and poverty. The paper focuses on “general means†, which are well-known income standards that place greater weight on lower incomes. In contrast to results obtained using the “mean income of the bottom 20 percent of the distribution†, the paper finds that growth is good for the poor, but not necessarily as good as for other sectors of the population.

Suggested Citation

  • James Foster & Miguel Székely, 2000. "How Good is Growth?," Asian Development Review (ADR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(02), pages 59-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:adrxxx:v:18:y:2000:i:02:n:s0116110500000087
    DOI: 10.1142/S0116110500000087
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0116110500000087
    Download Restriction: Open Access
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0116110500000087?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:adrxxx:v:18:y:2000:i:02:n:s0116110500000087. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/adr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.