Pro-poor growth in East Africa

Harmáček, Jaromír; Syrovátka, Miroslav; Dušková, Lenka

doi:10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.002

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“…The literature also attempts to define and measure pro-poor growth [57,58]. Moreover, the empirical research carried out worldwide does not provide a clear answer to the question of whether economic growth favors the poor [59][60][61]. Therefore, for the Visegrad Group countries, despite the strong impact of GDP per capita level on poverty reduction in the analyzed period, it is recommended to finance programs supporting the poor and implement the policy ensuring the participation of social groups presenting different levels of wealth in the creation and distribution of GDP.…”

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Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

2021

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This presented study discusses problems related to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, aimed at eliminating poverty, based on the example of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. The introduction addresses the general characteristics of the V4 and attempts to define the concept of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on its complex nature and importance for future generations. The purpose of the research was to assess the diversity within the Visegrad Group countries in the years 2005–2018 in terms of poverty and sustainable development level in the No Poverty area and also to identify the impact of the socioeconomic development level in the studied countries on sustainable development in the No Poverty area. Taking into account the analysis of poverty indicators in the Visegrad Group countries, the best results were recorded for Czechia. The second part of the conducted analyzed allowed us to conclude that Czechia definitely presents the highest level of sustainable development, followed by Slovakia. The highest average dynamics of changes occur in Poland and Hungary, which result in the gradual elimination of the existing disproportions. Among other research results, it is worth highlighting that the V4 countries show significant, however, decreasing differences regarding the indicators describing poverty in relation to sustainable development.

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Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

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“…This vector for each country is then multiplied by the corresponding mean income value which is available in the PovcalNet database. Thus, we obtain the actual income distribution data for all 50 individual African countries (see also Harmáček et al, 2016 or Harmáček et al, 2017). We then use the middle class threshold values to calculate the proportion (per cent) of people that belong to the above defined subcategories of the African middle class in each African country.…”

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Measuring the Middle Class in Africa – Income Versus Assets Approach

2020

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Traditionally, economists measure middle class from the income perspective. Considering quality of data for many African countries, relying solely on income may, unfortunately, lead to an incorrect picture. This article compares and analyses the African middle class measured by income and by ownership of assets. Results indicate that middle class sizes differ significantly in some countries, while in others they are more or less the same. Regression analyses performed to investigate potential correlates of the African income and assets middle class sizes indicate that the African assets middle class size is positively associated with income per capita and negatively with assets inequality. To a lesser extent, it is positively affected by education and negatively by ethnic fractionalisation. The African income middle class size depends positively on income per capita and education, while negatively on income inequality.

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“…pro-poor rastu (pro-poor growth). Pro-poor rast býva chápaný ako ekonomický rast, ktorý je prospešný pre chudobnú časť obyvateľstva, a teda sú to efekty ekonomického rastu na chudobné obyvateľstvo (Harmáček et al, 2017). Rozlišované sú dva základné prístupy k pro-poor rastu -relatívny a absolútny.…”

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Pro-poor growth in East Africa

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

Measuring the Middle Class in Africa – Income Versus Assets Approach

24th International Colloquium on Regional Sciences

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