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T1 A stochastic dominance approach to evaluating pro-poor growth—An application to the Spanish case
A1 Ahamdanech, Ismael
A1 García Pérez, Carmelo
A1 Prieto Alaiz, María Mercedes
K1 Poverty - Spain
K1 Pobreza - España
K1 Stochastic dominance
K1 Dominio estocástico
K1 53 Ciencias Económicas
AB In this paper, we analyze, in a novel way, the nature of economic growth in Spain after the Great Recession, in relation to its effect on poverty reduction. We use a statistical test to analyze the pro-poorness nature of economic growth using a stochastic dominance approach, not used in this context so far. We decompose changes in the difference in generalized Lorenz ordinates into a growth effect and an inequality effect and apply this to formal Spanish income data statistical tests based on dominance methods. We found that growth was pro-poor in Spain as a whole between 2013 and 2017. As regards regional growth effects, we conclude that growth was weakly pro-poor in seven of Spain’s 17 regions, it was neither pro-poor nor anti-poor in nine regions, and only weakly anti-poor in one region.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52584
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52584
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, n. 5, 1728
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-abr-2024