Economic growth, employment and poverty in developing economies: A focus on Arab region

The objective of the paper is to examine the nexus between economic growth, employment, poverty and inequality in developing economies, and the Arab countries in particular, during the MDGs period (1990-2013). The paper looks into the impact of the pattern of growth, measured by decomposing growth into various sectors, productivity and employment intensities, and demographic shifts in share of workers, on poverty reduction. Further, the study employs two poverty thresholds to assess the differences between the association of growth processes with changes in extreme poverty (rate below $1.25 a day in 2005 PPP) and that with poverty (defined as the rate below the $2.50 a day in 2005 PPP).

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