(Teaching) Regional Geography. Proceedings of 27th Central European Conference. 17th October 2019, Brno

Kapitola

Regional and Geographic Features of pro-poor growth in Africa

Jaromír Hamáček, Barbora Frličková
Rok vydání: 2020

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9694-2020-3
Regional and Geographic Features of pro-poor growth in Africa pdf, 506KB

Abstrakt

The paper focuses on regional and geographic features of pro-poor growth in African countries. The concept of pro-poor growth interconnects and examines mutual relationships between income growth, income poverty and income inequality. Using the World Bank’s income data, we calculate and interpret indicators of pro-poor growth for individual African countries. Then we analyze the results in terms of African regionalization and we investigate possible associations between pro-poor growth categories and selected geographic factors such as location, population size or population density. We show that higher pro-poorness of growth is typical for countries of Northern and Western Africa. The results also indicate that some of the geographic factors are significantly associated with pro-poor growth across African countries.

Klíčová slova

pro-poor growth, poverty, Africa, geography and growth

Reference

African Development Bank: Countries. (2018). African Develepment Bank. Retrieved from https://www.afdb.org/en/countries/

Araar, A., & Duclos, J. (2007). DASP: Distributive Analysis Stata Package. PEP, World Bank, UNDP, Université Laval. Retrieved from http://dasp.ecn.ulaval.ca/

Deutsch, J., & Silber, J. (2011). On Various Ways of Measuring Pro-Poor Growth. Open-Assessment E-Journal 5(2011-13), 1–59. https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-13

Gallup, J. L., Sachs, J. D., & Mellinger, A. D.  (2001). Geography and Economic Development – Data. CID Working Paper no. 1. Retrieved from http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/inst/geodata.dta>

Harmáček, J., Syrovátka, M., & Dušková, L. (2017). Pro-poor growth in East Africa. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 64(C), 82–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.002

Harmáček, J., Syrovátka, M., Schlossarek, M., & Pavlík, P. (2016). Jak měřit prospěšnost růstu pro chudé? Analýza ukazatelů a jejich komparace na případu Bangladéše. Politická ekonomie, 64(8), 988–1005. https://doi.org/10.18267/j.polek.1098

Kakwani, N., Pernia, E. (2000). What is Pro-Poor Growth? Asian Development Review, 18(1), 1–16.

Kakwani, N., & Son, H. H. (2003). Pro-poor Growth: Concepts and Measurement with Country Case Studies. The Pakistan Development Review, 42(4), 417–444. https://doi.org/10.30541/v42i4Ipp.417-444

Kakwani, N.,  & Son, H. H. (2008). Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate. The Review of Income and Wealth, 54(4), 643–655. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2008.00293.x

Klasen, S. (2004). In search of the holy grail: How to achieve pro-poor growth. In B. Tungodden, N. Stern, & I. Kolstad (Eds.), Toward pro-poor policies: Aid, institutions, and globalization, Proceedings from the annual World Bank conference on development economics. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Kraay, A. (2006). When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from a panel of countries. Journal of Development Economics, 80(1), 198–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.02.004

Lopez, H. (2004). Pro-poor growth: a review of what we know (and of what we don't). Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Naudé, W. (2007). Geography and Development in Africa: Overview and Implications for Regional Cooperation. UNU-WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2007/03. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

Opršal, Z., & Harmáček, J.(2019a). Clean Aid or Dirty Aid? The Environmentalization of Czech Foreign Aid. Journal of Cleaner Production 224, 167–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.198

Opršal, Z., & Harmáček, J. (2019b). Is Foreign Aid Responsive to Environmental Needs and Performance of Developing Countries? Case Study of the Czech Republic. Sustainability, 11(2), 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020401

Opršal, Z., Harmáček, J., & Syrovátka, M. (2017). Geography of Czech Aid: Where and Why Czechia Promotes Development? Geografie, 122(2), 169–189. https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2017122020169

Ravallion, M., & Chen, S. (2003). Measuring pro-poor growth. Economics Letters, 78(1), 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00205-7

Rodrik, D., & Subramanian, A. (2003). The Primacy of Institutions (and what this does or does not mean). Finance and Development, 40(2), 31–34.

Sachs, J. D. (2003). Institutions Matter, But Not For Everything. Finance and Development, 40(2), 38–41.

Son, H. H. (2004). A Note on Pro-Poor Growth. Economics Letters, 82(3), 307–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2003.08.003

UN (United Nations). 2019. Methodology – Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Geographic regions. Retrieved from https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/

WORLD BANK. 2018a. PovcalNet: the on-line tool for poverty measurement developer by the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Retrieved from http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/

WORLD BANK. 2018b. World Bank Country and Lending Groups. Retrieved from https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bankcountry-and-lending-groups

WORLD BANK. 2018c. World Development Indicators. Retrieved from https://databank.worldbank.org/data/source/world-development-indicators