Growth Still is Good for the Poor
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...The strength of growth is an important aspect of the quality of growth since high growth is a necessary ingredient to put a dent to poverty (Dollar and Kraay, 2002; Dollar et al., 2013)....
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...…former is more in line with the concept of pro-poor growth which underlies the concept of quality of growth.4 The strength of growth is an important aspect of the quality of growth since high growth is a necessary ingredient to put a dent to poverty (Dollar and Kraay, 2002; Dollar et al., 2013)....
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...However, relatively few posted significant declines in poverty, inequality and unemployment (see Dollar and Kraay, 2002; Dollar et al., 2013)....
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...1 See World Bank (2013). 2 As an example of this, in a recent speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on July 24, 2013, President Barack Obama described the US economy as “....
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...Our main findings in that paper were that (i) incomes in the poorest quintile on average increase equiproportionately with average incomes, reflecting the lack of a systematic correlation between growth and changes in the first quintile share, and (ii) this relationship is very strong, reflecting the fact that most of the variation in growth in incomes in the poorest quintile 1 See World Bank (2013)....
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