This document discusses economic growth and redistributive justice. It defines economic growth as a sustained increase in goods and services produced per capita over time, as measured by increases in GDP per capita. Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient for economic development. Growth benefits include reducing poverty by creating jobs and driving human development. Redistributive justice concerns the fair allocation of goods and services in a society, taking into account equitable distribution of income, wealth, taxation, and more. Methods for redistribution include targeting groups, progressive tax policies, social security, welfare, and inclusive policies.

1. Economic Growth and
Redistributive Justice

2. Economic growth and Redistributive justice
• An increase in the amount of goods and
services produced per head of the population
over a period of time.
• Economic growth can be measured through
an increase in GDP per capita income

3. • “Economic growth is the sustained secular
increase in total national income or national
income per head of population” (Phyllis
Deane).
• “Economic growth means more output. More
output may be the result of more input and
or greater efficiency and productivity”
(Kindleberger and Herrick).

4. • According to Amartya Sen “Economic growth is
one aspect of the process of economic
development.”
• Economic growth represents quantitative change
of economic system and determines the increasing
of country’s economic power, production level and
possibility of the national economy to meet the
growing needs for goods and services.
• Growth is a necessary condition for economic
development but it is not a sufficient condition.

5. Benefits of Growth
1. Growth move out poverty
• Economic growth is the most powerful
instrument for reducing poverty
• Growth can generate virtuous circle
• Research on developing countries finds strong
evidence that rapid and sustained growth is
the single most important way to reduce
poverty
• Example- China, India, Mozambique

6. 2. Growth creates jobs
Economic growth generates job opportunities
and hence stronger demand for labour, the
main and often the sole asset of the poor
In turn increasing employment has been
crucial in delivering higher growth

7. 3. Growth drives human development
• Positive link between economic growth and
broader measure of human development
• Growth is not fundamentally about materialism
• Growth generates virtuous circle of prosperity
and opportunity
• Weak economic growth implies vicious circle in
which poor human development contributes to
economic decline, leading to further
deterioration in human development

8. Redistributive justice
• Redistributive justice is concerned with the fair
allocation of goods and services
• A society in which inequalities in outcome do not
arise would be considered a society guided by the
principles of distributive justice.
• The concept includes the available quantities of
goods, the process by which goods are to be
distributed, and the resulting allocation of the
goods to the members of the society.

9. Welfare-Based Principles of Distributive Justice
• Distributive justice takes into account
the equitable distribution of many aspects.
• Other benefits and burdens that are
considered include potential income and
economic wealth, taxation, work obligations,
political power, education, housing,
healthcare, military service, and community
involvement.

10. Equity and Equality

11. Ways for redistribution
1. Identification of target groups for
redistribution of goods and services
2. Progressive tax policy,
3. social security policy,
4. Welfare policy
5. Inclusive policy