العلاقة السببية بين معدل الفقر، اللامساواة و النمو الاقتصادي باستعمال منهجية Toda-Yamamoto

Abstract EN

Last years, poverty reduction has been the biggest concern of all countries around the world, it was considered as the biggest goal of development policy, but what it is tangible with this global phenomenon is the increasing of its degree day per day.

For this reason, poverty reduction had become the major goal for all countries around the world and for many international organizations.

This study investigates the causality relationships between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Arabic countries using panel data series covering the period 1970- 2013.

Within a vector autoregressive model (VAR) , by applying a modified version of the Granger causality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (1995) .

The results indicate that there is no causalities between the variable except one from poverty rate to economic growth