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
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/10/7126791/measuring-pro-poorness-income-growth-within-elasticity-framework
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9018

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