Pro-Poor Growth: Definition, Measurement and Policy Issues

Jmurova, Aliona (2017): Pro-Poor Growth: Definition, Measurement and Policy Issues.

Abstract

The pro-poor growth concept came up in the economic literature recently and in the last decade a lot of researches have been dedicated to this study from many important international institutions and organizations. However, there are still disagreements on how we should intend the pro-poor growth and what kind of policies shall be implemented for it. Describing theoretical and analytical aspects of pro-poor growth, this paper represents a contribution to this literature and tries, in the end, to emphasize policy issues to obtain pro-poor growth.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: poverty, pro-poor growth, measurement.
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O43 - Institutions and Growth

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