Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income Millennium Development Goals

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In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of pro-poor growth have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence curve, allow a much more detailed assessment of the distributional impact of growth and its link to poverty reduction. However, there are no corresponding measures for tracking the distribution of progress in non-income dimensions of poverty, and thus the distribution of progress towards MDGs 2-7. In this paper, we propose to extend the pro-poor growth measurement to non-income dimensions of poverty (particularly health and education). We empirically illustrate the approach for Bolivia and show that it allows a much more detailed assessment of progress towards MDGs 2-7 by focusing on the distribution of progress. Furthermore, this extension also allows an explicit assessment of the linkage between progress in MDG1 and MDGs 2-7 as well as extends traditional incidence analysis by quantifying outcomes in non-income dimensions of poverty along the income distribution.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAI Discussion Papers ; No. 144

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Distribution: General ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General ; Economic Development: General ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Subject: Armut ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Millennium Development Goals ; Bolivien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grosse, Melanie ; Harttgen, Kenneth ; Klasen, Stephan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27434
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET