0 used to refer to a situation in which something that starts in the high parts of a system spreads to the whole of the system:
1 relating to the idea that poor people experience positive effects when rich people get richer and spend more money:
2 relating to a situation in which something that starts at the top of an organization, system, etc. spreads to all of it:
What little 'trickle-down' there was trickled mainly into provincial capitals, and local people themselves were often left with little but denuded hillsides and poisoned rivers.
First, policy-makers are strongly convinced of the ' trickle-down' potential of rapid agricultural growth.
Benefits to one interest would necessarily have "trickle-down" effects on other interests.
The trickle-down and trickle-up challenges can be better organised and pursued.
Depending on the trickle-down effect ?
I know that the economic strength of a nation should ultimately improve the life of everyone, but that trickle-down argument is now discredited.
One can no more have trickle-down development than one can have trickle-down wealth or trickle-down economics.
That is the discredited trickle-down theory of economics.
