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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013
This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409435
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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution.
Chamon, Marcos - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691055
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Decoupling from the East Toward the West? Analyses of Spillovers to the Baltic Countries
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
This paper uses VAR models to examine the magnitude and sources of growth spillovers to the Baltics from key trading partners, as well asfrom the real effective exchange rate (REER). Our results show there are significant cross-country spillovers to the Baltics with those from the EU outweighing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677789
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Do Trading Partners Still Matter for Nigeria's Growth? A Contribution to the Debate on Decoupling and Spillovers
Obiora, Kingsley I. - 2009
Should policymakers still be concerned about economic growth in trading partners? Have developing and emerging market countries decoupled from the US enough to grow despite significant recession in the US? Using VAR models, this paper addresses these questions for Nigeria in the context of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677490
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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth; Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi; Steinberg, Chad; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242249
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Why Was Asia Resilient? Lessons from the Past and for the Future
Jeasakul, Phakawa; Lim, Cheng Hoon; Lundbäck, Erik J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Asia proved to be remarkably resilient in the face of the global financial crisis, but why was its output performance … the global financial crisis. Looking ahead, Asia is in the process of adjusting to more volatile external conditions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142139
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Inequality, Poverty, and Growth; Cross-Country Evidence
Iradian, Garbis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that reduces measurement error and ensures comparability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263901
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Poverty in a Wealthy Economy; The Case of Nigeria
Canagarajah, Sudharshan; Thomas, Saji - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential wealth of the Nigerian economy and examines how the economic policies pursued in the 1980s and 1990s impacted economic growth and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826066
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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605055
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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal
Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790286