The Effect of Robust Growth on Poverty: A Nonlinear Analysis
University of Alabama EFL Working Paper No. 01-02-01
21 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2001
Date Written: February 2001
Abstract
Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980's had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy that the nonlinear specification shows a large and significant effect of the 1980's expansion on poverty.
JEL Classification: I32, I38
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Recommended Papers
-
Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity
By A. B. Atkinson and John Hills
-
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty
By Rebecca M. Blank and Alan S. Blinder
-
Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
By Manos Matsaganis, Cathal O'donoghue, ...
-
Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
By Markus Jantti and Stephen P. Jenkins
-
Youth Exclusion in Iran: The State of Education, Employment and Family Formation
-
Structural Adjustment and Forest Resources: The Impact of World Bank Operations
By Kiran Dev Pandey and David Wheeler
-
By John P. Formby, Gary A. Hoover, ...
-
Patterns of Economic and Social Participation Among FaCs Customers
By Peter Saunders, Judith Brown, ...