Groth, Inequality, and Poverty Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development [Hardcover]

The relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. This volume draws together many of the most important recent contributions to the controversies surrounding this topic.

1. Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements,Ravi Kanbur
2. Growth is Good for the Poor,David Dollar and Aart Kraay
3. Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond the Averages,Martin Ravallion
4. The Growth Elasticity of Poverty,Rasmus Heltberg
5. Education is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay,Erich Gundlach, Jos? Navarro de Pablo, and Natascha Weisert
6. Growth, Distribution, and Poverty Reduction: LDCs are Falling Further Behind,Felix Naschold
7. Redistribution Does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction,Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven, and John Weeks
8. Producing and Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries,Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, and Berk ?zler
9. Twin Peaks: Distribution Dynamics of Economic Growth Across Indian States,Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
10. A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Microsimulation Study for C?te d'Ivoire,Michael Grimm
11. Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A Micro-Simulation for Cear?,Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillipe George Leite
12. Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review,Arne Bigsten and J?rgen Levin

Anthony Shorrocksis Director of WIDER, having previously held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Essex. He has published extensively on topics related to income and wealth distribution, inequality, and poverty, and has been recently working on various issues conl3