When unstable, growth is less pro poor

Patrick Guillaumont () and Catherine Korachais ()

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Abstract: Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and by this way is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a given growth. It reflects a distributional effect not fully captured by a change in the Gini coefficient.

Keywords: income instability; Poverty; Inequality; economic growth; growth elasticity of poverty; poverty trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01-17
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