, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …-poor. Finally, the overall trends in the quality of growth and its contribution and that of redistribution to poverty adjustments … poverty reductions, while growth with government-directed redistribution can. …

absence of an explicit regional policy. Economic theory suggests such redistribution might be distorting. This paper indeed … finds that more redistribution leads to subsequent lower growth, but also slower interregional convergence. This may explain …

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show …