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Title: When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Evidence from Tunisia
Authors: Bibi, Sami
Keywords: Poverty measurement
Robustness analysis
Economic growth
Tunisia
Issue Date: 2005-07
Series/Report no.: Cahiers du CIRPÉE;05-22
Abstract: Many empirical studies have shown that economic growth generally leads to a drop in poverty. These studies have also pointed out that a given growth rate is compatible with a large range of outcomes in terms of poverty reduction. This means that growth is more pro-poor in certain cases than in others. Using complete and partial poverty orderings, this paper suggests a measure which captures the extent to which economic growth is pro-poor. This measure decomposes poverty changes into two components: the relative variation in the average income of the poor and the relative variation in the overall inequality within the poor. Evidence from Tunisia shows that economic growth was to a large extent-pro-poor during the last two decades.
URI: http://132.203.59.36/CIRPEE/cahierscirpee/2005/files/CIRPEE05-22.pdf
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