Resumen de Pro-poor economic growth, inequality and fiscal policy: the case of spanish regions

Luis Ayala Cañón , Antonio luis Jurado Málaga

• This paper aims at discussing if substantive differences exist in terms of the distribution of economic growth by income groups in the Spanish regions. In order to do so, we use data from the Spanish Family Budget Surveys for various years to estimate Growth Incidence Curves, decomposition models of the poverty changes and Isopoverty Curves. Our results show that while economic growth has meant in the long term an improvement of the lower incomes percentiles in Spain, this improvement is not uniform for the different regions.

  We also find more limited possibilities for the reduction of poverty in the lowerincome regions.