Is the Senegalese Accelerated Growth Strategy Pro-Poor?

Type Journal Article - Journal of Economics and International Finance
Title Is the Senegalese Accelerated Growth Strategy Pro-Poor?
Author(s)
Volume 2
Issue 8
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2010
Page numbers 144-155
URL http://joecabral.com/docs/doc3.pdf
Abstract
The main purpose of Senegalese accelerated growth strategy (AGS) is to boost economic growth so as to make poor people share its benefits. In any given economy, there is a relationship between growth, poverty reduction and income distribution. In this paper, based on a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and pro-poor measures, the author experiment the quality of AGS pattern. It turns out that growth generated by AGS is not pro-poor. However, its path is better for poor people than the one generated by the “business as usual” growth pattern.

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