The economic growth of a country is extremely crucial for its overall development. Most countries often gear their policies to achieve this target with the hope that such growth would bring their citizens out of poverty. However, growth need not necessarily be the sole objective of economic policy since economic growth can be lopsided and uneven, thus depriving large sections of the population of the benefits of growth. Therefore, most economic policy makers also take into account factors such as income distribution and poverty. However, there are varied debates over the method of measuring poverty as well since every Continue reading...