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Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Policies and Debates from the (Post-) Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth |
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Alfredo Saad-Filho |
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This article reviews recente conomic policy debates about the relationship between growth , poverty and inequality. These debates have tended to focus on whether market-led growth is sufficient to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality, or whether specific policies are necessary because untargeted growth may be insufficient or even perverse. The article charts the degenerating outcomes of the sedebates, and the emergence of the inclusive growth(IG) paradigm with in the World Bank. A critical exam ination of IG suggests that its weak nesses are best addressed through a more ambitious restatem gnt of the pro-poor goals of economic policy. |
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