DSpace Repository

Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Show simple item record

dc.creator Grimm, Michael
dc.creator Günther, Isabel
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:32Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:32Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18333
dc.identifier ppn:487848314
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18333
dc.description Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues misleading and led to the so-called ?Burkinab? Growth-Poverty-Paradox?, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i.e. growth was in contrast to what previous poverty estimates suggested ?pro-poor?. However, we also demonstrate that between 1994 and 1998 poverty indeed increased despite a good macroeconomic performance. This was due to a severe drought and a resulting profound deterioration of the purchasing power of the poor; an issue which was also overseen by previous studies.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 482
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject O12
dc.subject I32
dc.subject D63
dc.subject D12
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Poverty
dc.subject Pro-poor Growth
dc.subject Differential Inflation
dc.subject Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.subject Burkina Faso
dc.title Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account