The UN Millennium Development Goals have recognized poverty reduction as the main goal of global development policy. A comprehensive framework to evaluate the effectiveness of single policy measures and policy packages with respect to poverty reduction is still lacking, though. Policy evaluation...

Pro-Poor Growth (PPG) is the vision of combining high growth rates with poverty reduction. Due to the myriad of possible determinants of growth and poverty a unique theoretical model for guiding empirical work on PPG is absent, though. Bayesian Model Averaging is a statistically robust framework...