The cross-country literature on both growth and pro-poor growth has been
criticized for not giving enough guidance to policy makers. Much of the so-called propoor
growth agenda has been focusing on aggregated income and poverty statistics,
measuring to what extent growth was reducing poverty, and analyzing whether and why
poverty was reduced in an absolute or relative sense. In the beginning of the 2000´s,
however, a new wave of literature emerged focusing on the importance of the context and