Measuring the Elasticities of Poverty Indicators to Growth and the Degree of Inequality of Income Distribution 'An applied study on the Egyptian economy'

摘要

This study aims to measure the elasticity of different poverty indicators for each of the economic growth and the degree of inequality of income distribution and access to calculate the marginal substitution between growth and the relative degree of justice. The study found that there are opposite directions to the effects of growth and inequality on poverty indicators in Egypt for some periods, it could have been more volume if coupled with the growth process for the redistribution of targeting individuals poorer. This study also found that the growth is more effective in reducing the ratio of the poor people (poverty headcount ratio) compared to the other highest-ranking indices (the poverty gap, severity of poverty), which the policies associated with the income distribution occupies the of priority.