Pro Poor Growth

Author : Lukas Menkhoff
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783428523610

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Pro-poor Growth: Policy and Evidence by Lukas Menkhoff Pdf

The embarrassing living conditions of more than one billion poor people in developing countries in combination with the increasing gap of living standards between the poor and the rich, has provided a strong motivation for development policy to change this situation. From its beginning, policy has aimed for stimulating economic growth in order to improve living conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional »growth is good for the poor« by a more targeted policy that combines growth with a particular emphasis on improving the situation of the poor. This is exactly the objective of »pro-poor growth«, a term that became popular during the late 1990s and which seemed to dominate the stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015. This volume contains six papers that address various core issues of pro-poor growth policies. These papers were presented at the annual meeting of the Research Committee Development Economics (Ausschuss Entwicklungsländer des Vereins für Socialpolitik) in 2005. Papers were lively discussed at the meeting and later on improved by comments from anonymous referees. All authors have done extensive research in the field of pro-poor growth, including field studies. Accordingly, their contributions - reflecting this knowledge and proficiency - pick up recent developments in the field. The discussion of most appropriate pro-poor growth policies is an ongoing process which has been documented by a growing literature. The value added of the present volume is obviously not to be more comprehensive than others but rather to continue the line of work by bringing some recent research findings - with a focus on policy relevance and empirical substantiation - to a broader audience.

Author : Timothy Besley,Louise Cord
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821365168

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Delivering on the Promise of Pro-poor Growth by Timothy Besley,Louise Cord Pdf

Economic growth is the most important determinant of poverty reduction. But countries with similar rates of growth can experience different poverty reduction rates.

Author : Director Anthony Shorrocks,Anthony Shorrocks,Rolph van der Hoeven,Manager of the Technical Secretariat Rolph Van Der Hoeven
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199268658

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty by Director Anthony Shorrocks,Anthony Shorrocks,Rolph van der Hoeven,Manager of the Technical Secretariat Rolph Van Der Hoeven Pdf

This is a collection of papers examining the pressing issue of increasing inequality in the distribution of income in developing countries. While economic growth is a prerequisite for a sustained reduction in poverty, policies aimed at raising growth rates are often associated with a range of adverse short term effects, including rising unemployment, greater economic insecurity, environmental degradation and the weakening of traditional social safety nets. Pro-poor growth strategiesattempt to address these short term problems. But the ideal mix of policies, and their impact on the prospects for poverty reduction in the longer run, remain controversial topics. Growth, Inequality and Poverty comprises many of the most important contributions to the current debate.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264024786

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DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Policy Guidance for Donors by OECD Pdf

Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding constraints and offers policies and strategies to address them.

Author : J. Humberto Lopez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pro-growth, Pro-poor by J. Humberto Lopez Pdf

"Is a pro-growth strategy always the best pro-poor strategy? To address this issue, Lopez provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large macroeconomic data set and estimate dynamic panel models that allows him to differentiate between the short- and long-run impacts of the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findings indicate that regardless of their impact on inequality, pro-growth policies lead to lower poverty levels in the long run. However, he also finds evidence indicating that some of these policies may lead to higher inequality and, under plausible assumptions for the distribution of income, to higher poverty levels in the short run. These findings would justify the adoption of a pro-growth policy package as the center of any poverty reduction strategy, together with pro-poor measures that complement such a package by offsetting potential short-run increases in poverty. This paper-- a product of the Poverty Reduction Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network-- is part of a larger effort in the network to understand how to increase the impact of growth on poverty reduction"-- World Bank web site.

Author : Lukas Menkhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122409373

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Pro-poor Growth by Lukas Menkhoff Pdf

The embarrassing living conditions of more than one billion poor people in developing countries in combination with the increasing gap of living standards between the poor and the rich, has provided a strong motivation for development policy to change this situation. From its beginning, policy has aimed for stimulating economic growth in order to improve living conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional »growth is good for the poor« by a more targeted policy that combines growth with a particular emphasis on improving the situation of the poor. This is exactly the objective of »pro-poor growth«, a term that became popular during the late 1990s and which seemed to dominate the stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015.This volume contains six papers that address various core issues of pro-poor growth policies. These papers were presented at the annual meeting of the Research Committee Development Economics (Ausschuss Entwicklungsländer des Vereins für Socialpolitik) in 2005. Papers were lively discussed at the meeting and later on improved by comments from anonymous referees.All authors have done extensive research in the field of pro-poor growth, including field studies. Accordingly, their contributions - reflecting this knowledge and proficiency - pick up recent developments in the field. The discussion of most appropriate pro-poor growth policies is an ongoing process which has been documented by a growing literature. The value added of the present volume is obviously not to be more comprehensive than others but rather to continue the line of work by bringing some recent research findings - with a focus on policy relevance and empirical substantiation - to a broader audience.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Assistance Committee
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111042672

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The DAC Guidelines by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Assistance Committee Pdf

Developing countries want to join in the globalisation process. However, the increasing complexity of global markets, the new challenges of the multilateral trading system and the competing demands of regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreemen

Author : Aart Kraay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When is Growth Pro-poor? by Aart Kraay Pdf

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of developing countries into these components. In the medium run, most of the variation in changes in poverty is due to growth, suggesting that policies and institutions that promote broad-based growth should be central to pro-poor growth. Most of the remainder is due to poverty-reducing patterns of growth in relative incomes, rather than differences in the sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes. Cross-country evidence provides little guidance on policies and institutions that promote these other sources of pro-poor growth.

Author : Adriana Rocío Cardozo Silva
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 363160386X

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Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Colombia by Adriana Rocío Cardozo Silva Pdf

This book analyses the distributional effects of economic growth on different dimensions of poverty in Colombia. It provides a microeconomic perspective on how economic growth affected poverty and inequality at the household level, as well as a macroeconomic perspective on the effects of growth on regional living standards. The study incorporates recent discussions on multidimensional analysis of well-being and goes beyond traditional income based measures, thereby contributing to the ongoing research on how to measure pro-poor growth and on the importance of incorporating different dimensions of well-being in convergence analysis.

Author : G. Cornia
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349281638

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Pro-Poor Macroeconomics by G. Cornia Pdf

This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote growth, reduce inequality and diminish poverty in a sustainable way.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264168350

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Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth The Role of Empowerment by OECD Pdf

Empowerment of those living in poverty is both a critical driver and an important measure of poverty reduction. This report aims to build donor understanding of empowerment and how best to support it.

Author : Boniface Essama-Nssah
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Unified Framework for Pro-poor Growth Analysis by Boniface Essama-Nssah Pdf

"Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, Essama-Nssah offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature. He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends fundamentally on the choice of evaluative weights. In addition, the author's framework leads to a new indicator of the rate of pro-poor growth that can be interpreted as the equally distributed equivalent growth rate. This is a distribution-adjusted rate of growth that depends on the chosen level of inequality aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative indicators of pro-poor growth can lead to conflicting conclusions from the same set of facts. This paper'-- a product of the Poverty Reduction Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network-- is part of a larger effort in the network to understand the distributional implications of economic growth"-- World Bank web site.

Author : Kathleen Beegle,Luc Christiaensen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464812330

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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa by Kathleen Beegle,Luc Christiaensen Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme poverty declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015. Political and social freedoms expanded, and gender equality advanced. Conflict in the region also subsided, although it still claims thousands of civilian lives in some countries and still drives pressing numbers of displaced persons. Despite Africa’s widespread economic and social welfare accomplishments, the region’s challenges remain daunting: Economic growth has slowed in recent years. Poverty rates in many countries are the highest in the world. And notably, the number of poor in Africa is rising because of population growth. From a global perspective, the biggest concentration of poverty has shifted from South Asia to Africa. Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa explores critical policy entry points to address the demographic, societal, and political drivers of poverty; improve income-earning opportunities both on and off the farm; and better mobilize resources for the poor. It looks beyond macroeconomic stability and growth—critical yet insufficient components of these objectives—to ask what more could be done and where policy makers should focus their attention to speed up poverty reduction. The pro-poor policy agenda advanced in this volume requires not only economic growth where the poor work and live, but also mitigation of the many risks to which African households are exposed. As such, this report takes a "jobs" lens to its task. It focuses squarely on the productivity and livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable—that is, what it will take to increase their earnings. Finally, it presents a road map for financing the poverty and development agenda.

Author : Martin Ravallion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02058430G

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Measuring Pro-poor Growth by Martin Ravallion Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264024786

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DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Policy Guidance for Donors by OECD Pdf

Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding constraints and offers policies and strategies to address them.