Essays about: "inequality-growth trade-off index"

Found 1 essay containing the words inequality-growth trade-off index.

  1. 1. The Effects of Growth and Inequality on Poverty in Honduras

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Larsson; Sofie Sjöborg; [2010]
    Keywords : inequality-growth trade-off index; poverty elasticity of inequality; poverty elasticity of growth; poverty; Honduras; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis studies and identifies effects of income growth and income inequality on poverty in Honduras. A Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) was implemented in Honduras in 2001 with the goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Since carrying out of PRS, poverty and inequality has only decreased slightly and growth in income has been small. READ MORE