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Operationalizing Inclusive Growth: Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies

By Alexei P Kireyev, Andrei Leonidov

March 6, 2020

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Alexei P Kireyev, and Andrei Leonidov. Operationalizing Inclusive Growth: Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of the poor increases faster than consumption of the rich. The paper presents a simple accounting framework for a per-percentile consumption diagnostics that could inform redistribution policies. The proposed framework is illustrated in application to Iraq and Tunisia.

Subject: Consumption, Consumption distribution, Economic growth, Expenditure, Inclusive growth, Income, National accounts

Keywords: Accounting framework, Changes in consumption expenditure, Consumption, Consumption distribution, Consumption expenditure, Expenditure distribution, Expenditure increase, Expenditure pattern, Inclusive growth, Income, Middle East, Observed per-capita consumption expenditure distribution, Percentile change, Percentile consumption, Percentile policy, Percentile properties, Percentile structure, Percentile targeting, Per-percentile policy, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    25

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2020/050

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2020050

  • ISBN:

    9781513528397

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941