Operationalizing Inclusive Growth: Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies

Alexei Kireyev () and Andrei Leonidov

No 2020/050, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of the poor increases faster than consumption of the rich. The paper presents a simple accounting framework for a per-percentile consumption diagnostics that could inform redistribution policies. The proposed framework is illustrated in application to Iraq and Tunisia.

Keywords: WP; consumption expenditure; expenditure distribution; accounting framework; percentile policy; percentile targeting; percentile properties; per-percentile policy; observed per-capita consumption expenditure distribution; percentile change; changes in consumption expenditure; percentile consumption; percentile structure; Consumption; Inclusive growth; Consumption distribution; Income; Middle East; expenditure increase; expenditure pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2020-03-06
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