Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth |
| |
Authors: | Michael Grimm |
| |
Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, University of G?ttingen, DIAL Paris and DIW Berlin, G?ttingen, Germany 2. Department of Economics, University of G?ttingen, Platz der G?ttinger Sieben 3, 37073, G?ttingen, Germany
|
| |
Abstract: | The recent focus on ‘pro-poor growth’ led also to an intense debate on how exactly to define and to measure pro-poor growth. All suggested measures have in common that they are based on the anonymity axiom. Such a perspective may provide a very incomplete picture given that the common objective of most studies investigating the pro-poorness of growth is to test whether specific policy reforms where beneficial to the initially poor or not. I suggest a new concept of pro-poor growth which removes the anonymity axiom, and, using an illustration based on data from Indonesia and Peru, I check whether the assessment of pro-poor growth is different when an anonymous and a non anonymous approach to pro-poor growth is used. I also suggest an original decomposition of poverty changes over time which links both concepts. The results show that the choice of the approach has a drastic impact on the interpretation of the data. |
| |
Keywords: | anonymity axiom convergence decomposition mobility pro-poor growth |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|