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Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience

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  • Nanak Kakwani
  • Hyun H. Son

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This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro-poor growth, this study examines to what extent the poor benefit from economic growth. First, various approaches to defining and measuring pro-poor growth are scrutinized using a variety of criteria. It is argued that the satisfaction of a monotonicity axiom is a key criterion for measuring pro-poor growth. The monotonicity axiom sets out a condition that the proportional reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure.

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  • Nanak Kakwani & Hyun H. Son, 2006. "Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-56, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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