Essays about: "poverty elasticity of inequality"
Found 2 essays containing the words poverty elasticity of inequality.
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1. The Effects of Growth and Inequality on Poverty in Honduras
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries : Is Growth in Democracies More Pro-Poor than in Non-Democracies?
University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Economists today agree that growth is fundamental in reducing poverty. But the strength of the relationship between the two has been debated, and there is a lack of satisfactory explanations to why the growth elasticity of poverty differs between countries. READ MORE