The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia /

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balakrishnan, Ravi
Other Authors: Steinberg, Chad, Syed, Murtaza
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/152
Online Access:Full text available on IMF