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Van de Gaer, Dirk; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2018

pure effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost due to aversion to time fluctuations given individuals' ranks … in the income distribution. The mobility effect, generated by reranking in the income distribution has two components: a … mobility due to the increase in time fluctuations of individual income streams, the net effect of mobility remains positive. In …

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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...

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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor

Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...

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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market : the recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth

Negre, Mario - 2010

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should disproportionally benefit the poor. The paper...

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-13, pp. 1-57

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a...

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In search of a strategy for making growth more pro-poor in the Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Bresciani, Fabrizio - 2011

-agricultural income growth can be made more pro-poor by investing in mobility infrastructure and health, facilitating international labor …

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The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda

Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David - 2007

The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has one of the highest population growth rates in the...

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Global income distribution and poverty: Implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios

Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010

The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...

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