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Was pro-poor economic growth in Australia for the income-poor? And for the multidimensionally-poor?
We investigate the pro-poorness of Australiaís strong economic growth in the
Örst decade of the XXI century using anonymous and non-anonymous approaches
to the measurement of pro-poor growth. The sensitivity of pro-poor growth evaluations to the deÖnition of poverty is evaluated by comparing the results for the
standard income-poverty measure with those based on a multidimensional deÖnition
of poverty. We Önd that Australian growth in this period can be only categorized as
pro-poor according to the weakest concept of pro-poorness that does not require any
bias of growth towards the poor. In addition, our results indicate that growth was
clearly more pro-income poor than pro-multidimensionally poor. Counterfactual
distribution analysis reveals that di§erences in the distribution of health between
these two groups is the non-income factor that most contributes to explain this
result.
Funding
Financial support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciÛn (grant ECO2008-03484-C02-01/ECON and ECO2010-21668-C03-03) Xunta de Galicia (10SEC300023PR) is gratefully acknowledged.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Social Indicators ResearchVolume
117Issue
3Pages
871 - 905Citation
AZPITARTE, F., 2014. Was pro-poor economic growth in Australia for the income-poor? And for the multidimensionally-poor? Social Indicators Research, 117(3), pp. 871 - 905.Publisher
© Springer NatureVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Social Indicators Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0378-8ISSN
0303-8300eISSN
1573-0921Publisher version
Language
- en