Bluhm, Richard; de Crombrugghe, Denis; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a...