Weakly Relative Poverty

doi:10.1162/REST_a_00127

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Weakly Relative Poverty

dc.contributor.author	Ravallion, Martin
dc.contributor.author	Chen, Shaohua
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-12T22:56:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-12T22:56:43Z
dc.date.issued	2011-11
dc.description.abstract	Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about the disutility of relative deprivation and the cost of social inclusion. We propose ‘‘weakly relative’’ lines that relax these assumptions. On calibrating our measures to national poverty lines and survey data, we find that half the population of the developing world in 2005 lived in poverty, only half of whom were absolutely poor. The total number of poor rose over 1981 to 2005 despite falling numbers of absolutely poor. With sustained economic growth, the incidence of relative poverty became less responsive to further growth. The number of relatively poor rose, just as the numbers of absolutely poor fell.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Economics and Statistics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/21439
dc.identifier.issn	0034-6535
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21439
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	MIT Press
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	absolute poverty
dc.subject	relative deprivation
dc.subject	poverty
dc.subject	relative poverty
dc.subject	growth
dc.title	Weakly Relative Poverty	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2012-11-01
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:00:10.595857Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.identifier.doi	10.1162/REST_a_00127
okr.journal.nbpages	1251-61
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/REST_a_00127
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Theory & Research
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.unit	Development Research Group
okr.volume	93(4)
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