Growth and Poverty Revisited from a Multidimensional Perspective

Maria Emma Santos, Carlos Dabus and Fernando Delbianco ()

Journal of Development Studies, 2019, vol. 55, issue 2, 260-277

Abstract: The actual impact of economic growth on poverty reduction is of fundamental importance to the development agenda. This paper offers new empirical evidence on growth and poverty measured from a multidimensional perspective using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index. Results from a First Difference Estimator Model suggest that while economic growth reduces multidimensional poverty, this impact is well below a one-to-one relationship and lower than the impact of growth on income poverty. Results from a cross-section model additionally suggest that countries with higher levels of exports, higher share of industry and services and higher control of corruption have lower multidimensional poverty.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1393520

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