Social welfare indicators of poverty and pro-poor development in Türkiye

tea-2024 türkiye ekonomi kurumu uluslararası konferans , Muğla, Turkey, 31 October - 02 November 2024, pp.255, (Summary Text)

The pro-poor growth analysis focuses on the changes in income distribution between income groups along

with growth. For this purpose, most studies look at the growth and distributional effects of changes in the

average income of the bottom 40%. Recently, it has been emphasized that this methodology should go

beyond an income-focused analysis and that the pro-poor growth process should also mean progress in

terms of certain welfare indicators. Shared prosperity is examined using the approaches of pro-poor

development and inclusive development. Defining the social welfare function as poverty-oriented, the

Poverty Social Welfare Approach aims to use income distribution data and basic social well-being indicators

for pro-poor development. Infant mortality rate (or infant survival rate), life expectancy at birth, literacy

rate, and the percentage of children under five free of stunting and wasting are among the basic social well-

being indicators. In this paper, the welfare function developed within the scope of the Poverty Social

Welfare Approach and inclusive development will be implemented for Türkiye. The basic indicators used

within the scope of pro-poor growth analysis and selected welfare indicators will be included in the poverty

social welfare function in order to examine the growth-poverty-welfare nexus for the period 2004-2023.

Keywords: Development, Pro-poor, Inclusive, Inequality, Türkiye

JEL Codes: D63, D31, O11, O47