| Abstract: |
Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the
development process has raised the issue of the linkage between economic
growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the
rate and the distributional impact of growth are important in fighting
poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more important
in certain cases than in others. Using complete and partial poverty orderings,
this paper suggests indices of pro-poor growth according to different ethical
principles. Evidence from Mexico and Tunisia shows that economic growth
periods were to a large extent equitable and even largely pro-poor during the
last two decades. |