Pro-poor growth : A primer

By M. Ravallion. 2004

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These days it seems that almost everyone in the development community is talking about"pro-poor growth."What exactly is it, and how can we measure it? Is ordinary economic growth always"pro-poor growth"or is that some special kind of growth? And if it is something special, what makes it happen? The author first reviews alternative approaches to defining and measuring"pro-poor growth."He then analyzes evidence on whether growth is pro-poor, what factors make it more pro-poor (including the role played by both initial inequality and changing inequality), and whether the factors that make the distribution of the gains from growth pro-poor come at a cost to growth. The author identifies some priorities for future research.

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Innovation, Poverty and Inequality: Cause, Coincidence, or Co-evolution? (2009, background): “However, growth is important in reducing absolute poverty (Ravallion 2004), although it does not do so in every case (cf. the recent experiences in China, India, and South Africa).”
Value chain approaches to assessing the impact of tourism on low-income households in developing countries (2012, background): “This need to shift emphasis from the conceptual to the practical level is also recognised by Ravallion (2004) who argues that “the real issue is not whether growth in pro-poor but how pro-poor it is” (p. 4).”
Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus (2006, methodology): “The absolute concept is associated with the work by Ravallion (2004b) .”
Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth : Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences (2006, background): “The absolute definition of pro-poor growth focuses on accelerating the rate of income growth of the poor and thus the rate of poverty reduction (DFID 2004; Ravallion 2004; Ravallion and Chen 2003).”
Inclusive growth, human capital development and natural resource rent in SSA (2018, background): “…forms of structural transformation: it could be diversification of the economy from an agrarian-based to manufacturing 10 There are ample evidences that have confirmed the positive linkage in the investment in human capital (education and health) and economic growth (see Ravallion 2004; Hull 2009).”
Is Aquaculture Pro-Poor? Empirical Evidence of Impacts on Fish Consumption in Bangladesh (2014, background): “Ravallion (2004, 2009) considers growth that reduces poverty by any amount to be pro-poor.”
Pro-poor Growth: WARR - PRO-POOR GROWTH (2005, background): “Even with moderate growth, high inequality will prevent growth from having a significant impact on poverty because of the negative impact that inequality levels have on the growth elasticity of poverty (Ravallion, 2004).”
Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality (2015, background): “…dependent on a country’s rate or stage of growth, but also on its type of growth and institutions (Engerman & Sokoloff; 1997; Fields; 2002; Bourguignon, 2004; Ravallion, 2004; Sachs, 2005; Beinhocker, 2006; Collier 2007; Stiglitz, Sen & Fitoussi 2009; Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012; Hartmann, 2014).”
A normal relationship ? Poverty, growth, and inequality (2006, background): “In turn, Ravallion (1997, 2004) presents an empirical model relating poverty changes to the distribution-corrected rate of growth.”
The composition of growth matters for poverty alleviation (2006, background): “In fact, most studies point to a considerable heterogeneity in the poverty-growth relationship, and understanding the sources of this divergence is a growing area of investigation (Bourguignon 2003; Kakwani, Khandker, and Son 2004; Lucas and Timmer 2005, Ravallion 2004).”
Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth (2007, neutral): “Ravallion (2004b) pointed out that ‘anti-globalizers’ seem to focus more on the losers amongst the poor and those vulnerable to poverty and therefore on horizontal inequality, whereas ‘globalizers’ focus more on aggregate inequality explaining why both groups may conclude so differently on the distr”
Pro-poor Growth: Concepts and Measurement with Country Case Studies (Distinguished Lecture) (2003, neutral): “It defines growth as pro-poor if it reduces poverty (howsoever small) (Ravallion 2004).”