Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son

No RP2006-56, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro-poor growth, this study examines to what extent the poor benefit from economic growth. First, various approaches to defining and measuring pro-poor growth are scrutinized using a variety of criteria. It is argued that the satisfaction of a monotonicity axiom is a key criterion for measuring pro-poor growth. The monotonicity axiom sets out a condition that the proportional reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure.

Keywords: Economic development; Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Poverty; Methodology (Poverty) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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