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- ÍtemAcceso AbiertoCrecimiento económico y su incidencia en la pobreza del Ecuador en el periodo 2007-2017(Universidad Católica de Cuenca, 2023) Cando Lliguin, Mario Esteban; Ugalde Vásquez, Andrés Francisco; 0106629181This article studies the impact of economic growth on poverty in Ecuador during the period 2007-2017. For this purpose, the national surveys of Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC by its Spanish acronym) are considered. Thus, using microdata allows for a large sample size, which means that the estimates made using a linear probability model (LPM) can be considered reliable. Thus, there is a dichotomous dependent variable represented by poverty, while the explanatory variables are constituted by per capita income plus other predictors that serve a control function. The main findings of this study indicate that economic growth has a statistically significant impact on poverty reduction; however, this impact is economically modest. A 10% increase in per capita income leads to a probability that poverty decreases by less than 1%, and the sensitivity analysis using different specifications of the estimated model does not change the results, so they can be considered robust. This implies that public policy should focus on implementing complementary measures to economic growth to achieve the goal of reducing poverty in Ecuador