What is Pro-poor Growth?

Ernesto Pernia () and Nanak Kakwani

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Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the concept of pro-poor growth, and argues that it represents a major departure from the “trickle-down” phenomenon. It proposes a new indicator—the pro-poor growth index—that measures the degree to which growth can be considered to be pro-poor. The new indicator is used to analyze the nature of economic growth in three countries, namely, Lao PDR, Thailand and Korea.

Keywords: Pro-poor; Growth; Economic; Growth; Poverty; Reduction; Equity; and; Efficiency; Trade-off; Lao; DPR; Thailand; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C0 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Published in Asian Development Review 3.18(2000): pp. 1-16

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