Measuring pro-poor growth

Measuring pro-poor growth

The growth incidence curve gives growth rates by quantiles ranked by income. Integrating this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of “propoor growth” consistent with the Watts index for the level of poverty. Examples are given using survey data for China during the 1990s.

On Various Ways of Measuring Pro-Poor Growth

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also propose a third type of decomposition...

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth

The issue Poverty and underdevelopment are closely correlated with lack of functional infrastructure and underemployment (ILO, 2010; OECD, 2005; World Bank, 1994). Infrastructure, including social and economic infrastructure, helps to build the conditions for economic growth and poverty reduction. In addition, the use of Labour Based Approaches (LBAs) to build and maintain infrastructures is cu...

easuring pro - poor growth

We measure the rate of pro-poor growth by the mean growth rate of the poor, which equals the rate of change in the Watts index of poverty normalized by the headcount index. Examples are given using data for China during the 1990s.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.