Pro-poor growth

Nanak Kakwani

Chapter 54 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 583-593 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This paper reviews how pro-poor growth evolved, providing intuitive interpretations and policy implications. It critically assesses alternative definitions of pro-poor growth proposed in the literature. It also outlines how to make pro-poor growth operational utilizing household surveys. China has achieved an unprecedented poverty reduction. It has succeeded in lifting almost one billion people out of poverty in three decades. This paper tells the Chines story of how it achieved unprecedented poverty reduction. The poverty equivalent growth rate (PEGR) proposed by Kakwani and Son, published in 2008 in the Review of Income and Wealth, is the primary vehicle to tell this story. The analysis presented in this paper covers the period 1988-2018.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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