Pro-poor

What is pro-poor economic growth?

Currently two school of thoughts dominate the literature:

The first school of thought define pro-poor growth as any distributional shifts in economic growth that favors the poor, i.e., poverty falls more than it would have if all incomes had grown at the same rate (Baulch & McCullock 2000; Kakwani & Pernia 2000).

The second school of thought argues that a 'growth is said to be 'pro-poor' if and only if poor people benefit in absolute terms, as reflected in an appropriate measure of poverty." (Ravallion and Chen 2003)

For details, please see the following articles:

Baulch, Robert and Neil McCulloch (2000), ‘Tracking pro-poor growth.’ ID21 insights No. 31. Sussex: Institute of Development Studies.

Kakwani, Nanak and E. Pernia, (2000),'What Is Pro-Poor Growth?’ Asian Development Review. 18(1): 1-16. Ravallion, Martin and Chen, Shaohua (2003), ‘Measuring Pro-Poor Growth,’ Economics Letters, 78(1), 93-99.

What interventions can help pro-poor growth?



What evidence do we have?