Krishnakumar, Jaya; Ugarte, Cristian - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2011
The aim of this paper is to understand the impact of growth on poverty reduction in a right-skewed income distribution setting. Ex- isting literature focuses on the effect of aggregate growth on the mean income of the poor by means of a regression of the latter on the for- mer. This, however,...