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What is Pro-poor Growth
Author : Kakwani, N., and Pernia, E.M.
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Year: 2000
Acc. No: 420-S
Category: Soft Documents
Type of Resource: Poverty reduction strategy, Economic growth and development, Equity, Income distribution
ISBN: English
This paper attempts to explain the concept of pro-poor growth, and argues
that it represents a major departure from the “trickle-down”phenomenon. It proposes
a new indicator–the pro-poor growth index–that measures the degree to which
growth can be considered to be pro-poor. The new indicator is used to analyze the
nature of economic growth in three countries, namely, Lao PDR, Thailand and
Korea.
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