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Prospects for pro-poor growth in Africa
This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in some African countries and calculate pro-poor growth indices. Different growth patterns are simulated for Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution should depend on the elasticity of the growth-equity tradeoff. We also discuss what the appropriate ingredients of a pro-poor strategy would be in the African setting.
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Englisch
- ISBN
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929190631X
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Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2004/42
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Africa
Millennium Development Goals
income distribution
poverty
Einkommensverteilung
Armut
Wirtschaftswachstum
Armutspolitik
Afrika
Shimeles, Abebe
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bigsten, Arne
- Shimeles, Abebe
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Time of origin
- 2004