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Pro-Poor Growth Using Non-Income Indicators: An Empirical Illustration for Colombia

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Adriana Cardozo () (University of Göttingen / Germany)
Melanie Grosse () (University of Göttingen / Germany)

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In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional pro-poor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative weighing techniques: polychoric principal components and normatively selected weights. Results show that while income and expenditures fluctuated according to economic growth, reflecting the effects of the 1999 economic crisis, non-income indicators had minor changes. While income and expenditures decreased for all income percentiles, and relatively more for the richest, the non-income dimensions stagnated and remained in 2003 as unequally distributed as in 1997.

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Paper provided by Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in its series Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers with number 192.

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Date of creation: 24 Jun 2009
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Keywords: Pro-Poor Growth; Inequality; Welfare Measurement; Multidimensionality of Poverty; Latin America; Colombia;

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D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General
O10 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
O12 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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