Economic Development and Poverty aleviation

Bc. Lina Khoroshun

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Poverty alleviation is set as a number-one goal by the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. There are different opinions how economic development facilitates the reduction of poverty, which makes it difficult to choose the appropriate government policy. In this thesis we analyse the effect of economic growth on the poverty indicators, including poverty headcounts ratio and poverty gap. We find that the economic growth has a diminishing effect on poverty, with the strongest impact for the less developed countries and almost no effect for the relatively rich countries. We suggest that governments should use different policy measures in order to reduce poverty in the respective countries.

Keywords

poverty, poverty gap, GDP per capita, poverty headcount ratio, economic development, developing countries

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 30. 11. 2022

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 23. 5. 2022
• Vedúci: doc. Ing. Irena Benešová, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Hedvika Hánová, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / odbor:
Economics Policy and Administration / Business Administration