Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth within an Elasticity Framework

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of g...

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Main Authors:	Essama-Nssah, B., Lambert, Peter J.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE ABSOLUTE REDUCTION ABSOLUTE VALUE ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AGGREGATE GROWTH AGGREGATE INCOME AGGREGATE MEASURE AGGREGATE POVERTY CONSUMER PRICE INDEX COUNTERFACTUAL DENSITY FUNCTION DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DISTRIBUTIONAL COMPONENT DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPIRICAL SECTION EQUIPROPORTIONATE INCOME EXTERNAL SHOCKS FINANCIAL CRISIS GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PATTERN GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEAD COUNT RATIO HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATIO HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME CHANGE INCOME COMPONENTS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVEL INCOME POVERTY INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INTEREST RATES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LEVEL OF POVERTY MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MAXIMUM INCOME MEAN GROWTH MEAN INCOME MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS OBSERVED CHANGE OBSERVED CHANGES OBSERVED GROWTH OBSERVED GROWTH RATE OBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION PENSIONS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR POPULATION POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION SIZE POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY IMPACT OF GROWTH POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INCREASES POVERTY INDEX POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY OUTCOMES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY-REDUCING GROWTH PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PROGRESS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RATE OF GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY RELATIVE GAINS RESPECT RICHER COUNTRIES SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SQUARED POVERTY GAP UNEMPLOYMENT VULNERABILITY WELFARE LEVEL
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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth within an Elasticity Framework

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