Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

No DP2014-33, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: Drawing upon cross-country panel data for developing countries, the present study sheds new empirical light on dynamic and long-term linkages among growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, inequality and poverty. Agricultural growth is found to be the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty. The role of agricultural growth in reducing inequality is undermined by ethnic fractionalisation which tends to make inequality more persistent. Our analysis points to a drastic shift away from rural-urban migration and urbanisation as main drivers of growth and elimination of extreme poverty, and towards revival of agriculture in the post-2015 policy discourse.

Keywords: Inequality; Poverty; Growth; Agriculture; Non-agriculture; MDG (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 I15 I39 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2014-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev and nep-gro
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Working Paper: Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries (2014)
Working Paper: Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries (2014)
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