Lübker, Malte; Smith, Graham; Weeks, John - In: Journal of International Development 14 (2002) 5, pp. 555-571
In a recent paper Dollar and Kraay come to sweeping conclusions about economic growth and the poor. On the basis of empirical work they assert that standard World Bank and IMF policy packages are good for the poor. This paper demonstrates that (i) the empirical work is based on theoretically...