Aid, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

Climate Change, Green Growth and Aid Allocation to Poor Countries

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but current poverty still high in the developing world, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor. Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic growth, but growth impacts the environment and increases CO2 emissions. So can greener growth that is more climate-resilient and less environmentally damaging...

The Triangular Relationship between Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Iran during the Development Plans

Expended Abstract Introduction: An issue which is often recurring in discussion on development is whether the main focus of development strategies should be on growth or on poverty and/or inequality. The goal of development strategies can be put in two statements. “First, the rapid elimination of absolute poverty, under all forms, is a meaningful goal for development Second, the reduction of a...

The Triangular Relationship between Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Iran during the Development Plans

Expended Abstract Introduction: An issue which is often recurring in discussion on development is whether the main focus of development strategies should be on growth or on poverty and/or inequality. The goal of development strategies can be put in two statements. “First, the rapid elimination of absolute poverty, under all forms, is a meaningful goal for development Second, the reduction of a...

Trade, growth and poverty: making Aid for Trade work for inclusive growth and poverty reduction - ODI Working Papers 313

Inclusive Growth in Iran's Provinces (2004 -2015)

    This paper aims to focus on inclusive growth and its impact on multidimensional poverty and inequality in Iran's provinces on the basis of social mobility index. The results suggest, that although the multi-dimensional poverty has decreased, participation of active labor force has a decisive role in inclusive growth and reduction of absolute multi-dimensional poverty of the provinces. But l...