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Pro-poor
Journal Article
The individual poverty incidence of growth

The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth...

Income mobility Poverty Dynamics Pro-poor
Working Paper
What’s behind pro-poor growth?: The role of shocks and measurement error

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution...

Measurement error Shocks Pro-poor
Book Chapter
Indonesia

From the book: Asian Transformations

Governance Poverty Pro-poor
Working Paper
The individual poverty incidence of growth

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth...

Income mobility Poverty Dynamics Pro-poor
Working Paper
Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal’s Asian Drama

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects...

Governance Poverty Pro-poor
Project
Impact of globalization on the world's poor

Theme: 2004-05

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty reduction. And there is much concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from globalization, and under what circumstances it may...

Globalization and Trade Globalization Poverty
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