This paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in Iran during the first five-year plan. In other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in Iran helped poor people or not. For this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of Iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. We use an indicator ...

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...

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.

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.

this paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in iran during the first five-year plan. in other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in iran helped poor people or not. for this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. we use an indicator ...