Measuring Pro-Poor Progress towards the Non-Income Millennium Development Goals

Melanie Grosse (), Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen
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Melanie Grosse: Universität Göttingen, http://www.iai.wiwi.uni-goettingen.de

No 144, Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers from Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of \"pro-poor growth\" have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence curve, allow a much more detailed assessment of the distributional impact of growth and its link to poverty reduction. However, there are no corresponding measures for tracking the distribution of progress in non-income dimensions of poverty, and thus the distribution of progress towards MDGs 2-7. In this paper, we propose to extend the pro-poor growth measurement to non-income dimensions of poverty (particularly health and education). We empirically illustrate the approach for Bolivia and show that it allows a much more detailed assessment of progress towards MDGs 2-7 by focusing on the distribution of progress. Furthermore, this extension also allows an explicit assessment of the linkage between progress in MDG1 and MDGs 2-7 as well as extends traditional incidence analysis by quantifying outcomes in non-income dimensions of poverty along the income distribution.

Keywords: Multidimensionality of Poverty; Millennium Development Goals; Pro-Poor Growth; Growth Incidence Curve; Bolivia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 I30 O10 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2006-06-09
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