Growth: necessary and sufficient for poverty reduction
Recommended reading
- World Development Report 2009: Reshaping economic geography
- ( World Development Report, World Bank , 2009)
- Economic growth is inevitably unbalanced, and attempts to spread it out could jeopardise development. This is the key argument of the 2009 World Development Report on reshaping economic geography....
- The growth report: strategies for sustained growth and inclusive development
- ( Commission on Growth and Development , 2008)
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Why is growth important, and how do developing economies grow? At the start of the twenty-first century, these age-old questions continue to spark debate and analysis. In 2006, a gro...
- Trade, growth, and poverty
- ( D. Dollar; A. Kraay / Economic Growth Project, World Bank , 2001)
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Looks at the effect of globalization on inequality and poverty. The authors identify a group of developing countries that are participating more in globalization.
These "globalizers" include China...
- Economic growth, inequality and poverty reduction: Does pro-poor growth matter?
- ( A. McKay;A. Sumner / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2008)
- Conventional wisdom is that growth is the most important and maybe the easiest driver of poverty reduction. This briefing argues that various factors influence the magnitude of the poverty reduction t...
