The Composition of Growth Matters for Poverty Alleviation

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth. It does so by focusing on the structure of output growth itself. The paper presents a two-sector theoretical model that clarifies the mechanism through which the sectoral composit...

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Main Authors: Loayza, Norman V., Raddatz, Claudio
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4720