Operationally Defining Inclusive Growth: One Challenge, Two Approaches

Abstract

Analyzing inclusive growth involves facing the need to establish an operational definition of a concept that has been widely yet loosely used in discourse and practice. It requires addressing the meaning of inclusive growth before confronting the issue of determining sensible measures. Many times, however, in spite of lively considerations of the concept of inclusive growth preceding their presentation, operational definitions have not objectified the evolving conceptual richness on the term. (…)