A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis / B. Essama-Nssah

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Policy research working paper ; 3397Publisher: [Washington, D.C] : World Bank, [2004]Description: Online-RessourceSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Essama-Nssah, B: A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis LOC classification:
  • HG3881.5.W57
Online resources: Additional physical formats: Also available in print.Summary: "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 sitePPN: PPN: 724212965Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-wba | ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBL
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