Is Growth Enough? : Macroeconomic Policy and Poverty Reduction /

The paper investigates the existence of "super pro-poor" policies-that is, policies that directly influence the income of the poor after accounting for the effect of growth. It uses a dynamic panel estimator to capture both across- and within-country effects, and a Bayesian-type robustness...

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Autor principal: Leite, Carlos
Altres autors: Ghura, Dhaneshwar, Tsangarides, Charalambos
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/118
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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Sumari:The paper investigates the existence of "super pro-poor" policies-that is, policies that directly influence the income of the poor after accounting for the effect of growth. It uses a dynamic panel estimator to capture both across- and within-country effects, and a Bayesian-type robustness check to account for model uncertainty. The findings confirm that growth raises the income of the poor, although this relationship is less than one-to-one. The analysis also identifies four super pro-poor conditions that are influenced by policy: inflation, government size, educational achievement, and financial development.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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