Along-lasting scientific and policy debate queries the impact of growth on distribution. A specific branch of the micro-oriented literature, known as ‘pro-poor growth’, seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional impact should be measured in an anonymous fashion. The income dynamics and mobility impacts of growth are thus ignored. The paper extends this framework in two important manners.
The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison
of poverty before and after growth. Measurement tools endorsing this approach fail to
capture the different experiences of poverty dynamic in the population: there can be groups
of the population made poorer or non-poor made poor by growth.We propose an approach
that allows measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth and showhowit is related
with existing models.We apply our framework to evaluate the poverty impact of growth in
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