The growth elasticity of poverty reduction : explaining heterogeneity across countries and time periods

By François Bourguignon. 2002

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence (2017, methodology): “11 Indeed, the basic relationship is an identity (Bourguignon, 2003), which renders the specification potentially the most comprehensive.”
Global food security in 2050: the role of agricultural productivity and climate change (2014, unknown): “Widely used in the poverty literature, these growth elasticities measure the per cent changes in the indices of poverty and poverty gap given a 1 per cent change in average per capita income (Bourguignon 2003; Lopez and Serven 2006).”
Inclusive Growth Analytics: Framework and Application (2009, unknown): “2 What Does the Literature Tell Us? A high pace of growth over extended periods of time is a necessary, and often the main contributing factor in reducing poverty as found by a sizable body of literature including Deininger and Squire (1998), Dollar and Kraay (2002), White and Anderson (2001), Raval”
Cities, Territories, and Inclusive Growth: Unraveling Urban–Rural Linkages in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico (2015, methodology): “Following Bourguignon (2003) poverty reduction within a territory may be due to a rise in average per capita income without any change in the distribution of income ( “ growth eﬀect ” ), or to a change in the distribution of income in favor of the poor without any increase in the average per capita…”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “If it is low, however, ambitious poverty reduction strategies might have to combine both economic growth and some redistribution” (Bourguignon, 2003).”
Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context (2015, unknown): “Bourguignon (2003) derives a comprehensive growth–inequality–poverty nexus.”
Joint determinants of fiscal policy, income inequality and economic growth (2013, background): “The alternative of reducing distributive expenditure may have an important social cost in terms of increasing income inequality, something that eventually may aggravate problems related to poverty (Bourguignon, 2003).”
The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, unknown): “…it was assumed that incomes within countries and regions were lognormally distributed (a common assumption in the inequality literature [see Bourguignon (2003) and Klasen and Misselhorn (2006)]) such that the distribution of income in 1990 was lognormally distributed with mean y and…”
The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China (2009, background): “Empirically, the initial distribution of income is known to be important for the subsequent effect of economic growth on poverty (Ravallion, 1997; Bourguignon, 2003).”
A normal relationship ? Poverty, growth, and inequality (2006, methodology): “More recently, Bourguignon (2003) has offered an indirect reassessment of the empirical validity of the lognormal approximation. He reports OLS regression estimates in a framework explaining the observed change in a selected poverty measure on the 4 Specifically, Gibrat (1931) argued that the good e”
A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice (2013, methodology): “For an application of the growth elasticity of poverty using the headcount ratio, see Bourguignon (2003). To understand the change in the growth or elasticity of poverty for a variable poverty line, various poverty growth curves can be constructed (similar to the various growth curves discussed in t”