If it is high, then public policies designed to combat poverty based on economic growth will be more effective since, in this type of situation, boosting income will have a proportionally greater effect in terms of poverty reduction. On the other hand, if the coefficient of elasticity is low, the most appropriate poverty reduction strategies will be those that combine economic growth with some type of income redistribution (Marinho and Araujo, 2010). Their results indicate that, if the income level were to rise by 1 % in countries with low levels of inequality, the poverty rate would fall by 4.3%, whereas, in countries with high levels of inequality, the same increase in mean income would lead to a 0.6% drop in the poverty rate. They thus conclude that, in this latter case, growth has no more than a weak impact on poverty levels.