Intertemporal Pro-Poorness

On the “Pro-Poorness” of Growth in a multidimensional context

This paper represents a first attempt to gather the issues of growth “pro-poorness” andmultidimensional poverty assessments. More precisely, we suggest the use of sequential dominance procedures (Bourguignon, 1989, Atkinson, 1992, Jenkins and Lambert, 1993) to test the “pro-poorness” of observed growth spells when poverty is measured on the basis of income and some other discrete well-being att...

Assessing the Pro-poorness of Government Fiscal Policy in Thailand

This paper proposes a m ethodology to assess the pro-poorness of governm ent fiscal policies in view of bringing m arginal reform s. A governm ent policy is said to be pro-poor if it benefits the poor proportionally m ore than the non-poor. The author first derives the poverty elasticity for the general class of poverty. Then, using the idea of poverty elasticity, she proposes a propoor index t...

An Investigation for Pro-Poorness of Government Educational Policy in Pakistan

Poverty causes illiteracy and illiteracy causes poverty. No country today better exemplifies this cycle than Pakistan, where most educational plans and policies have failed to make any significant contribution towards increase in literacy rates. The objective of this paper is to critically examine the improvement in educational status and poverty by analyzing the Pro-Poor Growth Index & Poverty...

Intertemporal Choice

Intertemporal Aggration

Inter-temporal aggregation results in a summarization of information and a natural delay in the release of information. We study a principal-agent model and show that inter-temporal aggregation can be an optimal feature of a performance evaluation system. We also contrast the value of additional information when existing information is inter-temporally aggregated with its value when existing in...