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Productive Capacities and Poverty Reduction: Links and Processes Charles Gore UNCTAD

This presentation discusses the key challenges in poverty analysis, the statistical versus structuralist approach to poverty, orthodox versus heterodox approaches to economic growth, and the importance of productive capacities in poverty reduction. It also highlights the core processes through which productive capacities develop and explains why they matter for poverty reduction. The presentation concludes by discussing the paradigm shift needed in poverty reduction policies and the key policy ingredients and institutions required.

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Productive Capacities and Poverty Reduction: Links and Processes Charles Gore UNCTAD

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  1. Productive Capacities and Poverty Reduction:Links and ProcessesCharles GoreUNCTAD UN International Forum on Poverty Eradication New York, 15-16 November 2006

  2. Key Challenges in Poverty Analysis • International Analysis of Poverty • New global facts. • 1.2 billion $1/day poor • Global income inequality. Poorest 40 per cent gets 5 per cent of world income; richest 20 per cent gets 74 per cent • New forms of explanation • Trade and poverty • Global interdependence and global inequality • New forms of global interdependence • Global financial flows and instability • Development policy space • Technological opportunities and challenges • Climate change • Re-linking Production and Poverty

  3. Statistical versus StructuralistApproach to Poverty Analysis • Distinction based on Graham Pyatt; it has informed UNCTAD’s LDC Report 2002, 2004 and 2006 • Statistical approach: poverty line; characteristics of the poor; growth elasticity of poverty • Structuralist approach: generation and sustainability of jobs and livelihoods; locate livelihoods within the changing structure of the economy; relate the changing structure of economy to insertion in international economy.

  4. Orthodox versus Heterodox Approaches to Economic Growth • Orthodox Approach – Views the growing economy as “an inflating balloon, in which added factors of production and steady flows of technological change smoothly increase aggregate GDP” (Ocampo) • Heterodox Approaches – Various… • Heterogeneous agents, technological capabilities and their institutional matrix • Importance of sectoral structure • Importance of demand

  5. WHAT ARE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITIES? • Productive resources – natural resources, human resources, financial capital, physical capital. • Entrepreneurial capabilities – core competences; technological capabilities. • Production linkages – exchange of goods and services; flows of information; human and financial resource flows – between sectors and between enterprises.

  6. The Core Processes through which Productive Capacities Develop • Capital accumulation – increasing capital stocks of various kinds through investment • Technological progress – introducing new goods and services or methods of production through technological learning and application of knowledge in production (innovation) • Structural change – change in the inter- and intra-sectoral composition of production and pattern of linkages amongst sectors and enterprises

  7. Why Production Capacities Matter for Poverty Reduction • The expansion, development and utilization of productive capacities are at the heart of processes of economic growth • The growth-poverty relationship depends on the way in which productive capacities expand, develop and are utilized. Empirical studies on "pro-poor growth" show that the growth-poverty relationship depends on: the generation of productive resources; the dynamics of production structures; the nature of technological choices; the level of utilization of productive resources, particularly unemployment and underemployment of labour; and access to productive assets.

  8. Important differences amongst the LDCs:Long-term growth performance closely associated with patterns of structural change (1980-2003)

  9. FROM Integration/Exchange Consumption Framework Supply-side Tradables FDI Welfare State TO Production Employment Ingredients Supply and Demand Tradables and Non- tradables Private Domestic Investment plus FDI Development State Focusing on the Development and Utilization of Productive Capacities Requires a Paradigm Shift in Poverty Reduction Policies

  10. FINANCE Domestic firms Domestic financial systems International financial architecture and international trade regime KNOWLEDGE Domestic firms Domestic knowledge systems International regimes for technology acquisition and international migration Key Policy Ingredients and Institutions

  11. Thank YouThis presentation draws on UNCTAD’s work on East Asian development success (see UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Reports) and also UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Reports since 2002 (see www.unctad.org/ldcr)

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