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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries

This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the procedure is also robust to choosing over a class of weights to aggregate the impact of growth on the poor as well as over ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower-income African countries, countries that have witnessed different impacts of growth in the last two decades.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 2011-34

Classification
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Subject
Pro-poor growth
absolute poverty
relative poverty
stochastic dominance

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bibi, Sami
Duclos, Jean-Yves
Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(where)
Kiel
(when)
2011

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bibi, Sami
  • Duclos, Jean-Yves
  • Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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