Inclusive Growth: Beyond Safety Nets?

Abstract

Debates on inclusive growth have gained popularity within academic, public policy and private sector spheres. This article asks the question whether this has the potential to help move debates and policy beyond a still dominant safety nets paradigm. The emphasis on processes of growth -and hence livelihoods, employment and entrepreneurship -rather than re-distributing the benefits of growth is crucial in this. This reinforces the need to make institutions, formal and informal, an integral part of our understanding of growth, and inform policies that promote growth and inclusion simultaneously.Les débats sur la croissance inclusive ont gagné en popularité au sein des sphères académiques, des politiques publiques, et du secteur privé. Cet article cherche à savoir si cela a le potentiel d'aider les débats et les politiques à aller au-delà d'un paradigme encore dominant qui prône les filets de sécurité. L'accent mis sur les processus de croissance -et donc sur les moyens de subsistance, l'emploi et l'entrepreneuriat -plutôt que sur la re-distribution des bénéfices de la croissance, est crucial dans ce domaine. Cela renforce la nécessité de faire en sorte que les institutions, formelles et informelles, soient une partie intégrante de notre compréhension de la croissance, et d'instituer des politiques qui favorisent simultanément la croissance et l'inclusion.

Can Tourism Promote Inclusive Growth? Supply Chains, Ownership and Employment in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

“…Recent literature suggests that institutional dimensions are key to enabling 'growth coupled with equal opportunities' (Rauniyar & Kanbur, 2009, p. 3) through strong governance and equitable policies. According to de Haan andThorat (2013, p. 8 citing Addison &Nino-Zarazua, 2012), inclusive growth policies must 'allow people from different groupsgender, ethnicity, religionand across sectorsagriculture, manufacturing industry, services, to contribute to, and benefit from economic growth.' However, in much of south and south-east Asia, there are considerable populations living in rural and coastal areas who are under-served and underrepresented by institutions of power.…”

“…As part of the continuing debate over the complex relationships between economic growth, economic development and how that is transmitted to households (Harrison, 2004;Scheyvens, 2011), the World Bank, UNDP and other agencies have, since around 2008, been investigating the inclusive growth paradigm. Moreover, it has been adopted by regional development banks such as the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank (de Haan & Thorat, 2013), large economies (Kannan, 2014) and more recently, by small economies such as SIDS (Small Island Developing States) (Tandon, 2012) to achieve broad based, equitable growth and development. However, the concept is controversialit lacks clarity and meaning, yet, it is guiding planning and development policy objectives (Ranieri & Ramos, 2013).…”

Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

“…The typical verdict of one of these recent empirical studies on the low female labor force participation rate in the MENA region was that the U-shape hypothesis per se does not provide clear leads on why female labor force participation rates in the MENA region are so low (Verme, Barry and Guennouni, 2014). This gap in labor economics research about a vital tendency in the economic development in one of Europe's most important neighboring regions is all the more perplexing since there seems to be a growing agreement in recent literature (de Haan, 2015;Kabeer, 2012;Kabeer and Natali, 2013) that per se gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic growth (Gaddis and Klasen, 2014). The educational deficiencies in the region, plausibly leading to so low female participation rates in labor markets in addition are well-known in international labor economics and have been highlighted once more in a recent study by the Brookings Institution (Steer, Ghanem and Jalbout, 2014).…”

Village-Owned Enterprises (BUM Desa) For Inclusive Growth In Bengkulu Province

“…Rural-based development [2][3] is very important to do to improve the welfare of most of the population [4]. The number of villages in Bengkulu province in 2017 reached 1,341 in nine districts [5] [6].…”

“…The concept and purpose of BUM Desa is in line with efforts to achieve inclusive growth. The concept of inclusive growth is that the community is not only the beneficiary of growth, but also participates and contributes to the growth process [2] [11]. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) contribute to the achievement of inclusive growth [12].…”