Inequality and the growth–poverty nexus: specification empirics using African data
- 18 June 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Applied Economics Letters
- Vol. 15 (7), 563-566
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850600706669
Abstract
Applying analysis-of-covariance to 1990s African data, the study finds the impact of growth as a decreasing function of inequality and a poverty–growth elasticity range of 0.02–0.68 across the sample of countries.Keywords
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