摘要：This analytical review explores the links between growth, poverty and inequality in Sudan for the period 1956 2003. This paper build upon different models to investigate empirically the relationship between economic growth as measured by GDP per capita growth and inequality as measured by Gini coefficient (the growth, inequality and poverty triangle hypotheses), using data from the national and international sources. The paper tries to answer the following questions: i) whether growth, inequality and poverty are cointegrated, ii ) whether growth Granger causes inequality, iii) and whether inequality Granger causes poverty. Finally, a VAR is constructed and impulse response functions (IRFs) are employed to investigate the effects of macroeconomic shocks. The results suggest that growth; poverty and inequality are cointegrated when poverty and inequality are the dependent variable, but are not cointegrated when growth is the dependent variable. In the long run the causality runs from inequality, poverty to growth, and to poverty, while in the short run causal effects, runs from poverty to growth. Thus, there is unidirectional relationship, running from growth to poverty, both in the long run and short run.
