Distributions in Motion : Economic Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Dynamics

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.

关键词: ABSOLUTE VALUE;    AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS;    AGGREGATE INEQUALITY;    AGRICULTURAL GROWTH;    AGRICULTURE;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-5424
RP-ID  :  WPS5424

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The joint determination of aggregateeconomic growth and distributional change has been studiedempirically from at least three different perspectives. Amacroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data onpoverty, inequality, and growth rates has generated someinteresting stylized facts about the correlations betweenthese variables, but has not shed much light on theunderlying determinants. "Meso-" and microeconomicapproaches have fared somewhat better. The microeconomicapproach, in particular, builds on the observation thatgrowth, changes in poverty, and changes in inequality aresimply different aggregations of information on theincidence of economic growth along the income distribution.This paper reviews the evolution of attempts to understandthe nature of growth incidence curves, from the statisticaldecompositions associated with generalizations of theOaxaca-Blinder method, to more recent efforts to generate"economically consistent" counterfactuals, drawingon structural, reduced-form, and computable generalequilibrium models.