Essama-Nssah, Boniface,  1949- <br/><br/>
A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis / 
B. Essama-Nssah. 
 - Washington, D. C :  World Bank,  2004. 
 - 35p ;  27 cm. 
 - Policy research working papers ;  no. 3397 .
<br/><br/> Also available online.  "Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, Essama-Nssah offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature.  He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends fundamentally on the choice of evaluative weights.  In addition, the author's framework leads to a new indicator of the rate of pro-poor growth  that  can be interpreted as the equally distributed equivalent growth rate.  This is a distriution-adjusted rate of growth that depends on the chosen level of inequality aversion.  Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in that country.  A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of both gro 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Open access. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indonesia--Economic policy.<br/>Economic development.