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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth within an Elasticity Framework

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dc.contributor.authorLambert, Peter J.
dc.contributor.authorEssama-Nssah, B.
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T14:32:18Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T14:32:18Z
dc.date.issued2006-10
dc.description.abstractPoverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth pattern from the benchmark case. The measure can help assess pro-poorness both in terms of aggregate poverty measures, which are members of the additively separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to data for Indonesia in the 1990s reveals that the amount of poverty reduction achieved over that period remains far below what would have been achieved under distributional neutrality. This conclusion is robust to the choice of a poverty measure among members of the additively separable class, and can be tracked back to changes in expenditure components.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/10/7126791/measuring-pro-poorness-income-growth-within-elasticity-framework
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-4035
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9018
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; No. 4035
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectABSOLUTE POVERTY
dc.subjectABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE
dc.subjectABSOLUTE REDUCTION
dc.subjectABSOLUTE VALUE
dc.subjectADJUSTMENT PERIOD
dc.subjectAGGREGATE GROWTH
dc.subjectAGGREGATE INCOME
dc.subjectAGGREGATE MEASURE
dc.subjectAGGREGATE POVERTY
dc.subjectCONSUMER PRICE INDEX
dc.subjectCOUNTERFACTUAL
dc.subjectDENSITY FUNCTION
dc.subjectDEVELOPING WORLD
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL COMPONENT
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEMPIRICAL SECTION
dc.subjectEQUIPROPORTIONATE INCOME
dc.subjectEXTERNAL SHOCKS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL CRISIS
dc.subjectGLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subjectGROWTH
dc.subjectGROWTH ELASTICITY
dc.subjectGROWTH PATTERN
dc.subjectGROWTH PROCESS
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectGROWTH RATES
dc.subjectHEAD COUNT RATIO
dc.subjectHEADCOUNT POVERTY
dc.subjectHEADCOUNT RATIO
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectINCIDENCE OF POVERTY
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME CHANGE
dc.subjectINCOME COMPONENTS
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectINCOME LEVEL
dc.subjectINCOME POVERTY
dc.subjectINDIVIDUAL INCOMES
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectINTEREST RATES
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
dc.subjectLEVEL OF POVERTY
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC STABILITY
dc.subjectMAXIMUM INCOME
dc.subjectMEAN GROWTH
dc.subjectMEAN INCOME
dc.subjectMILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subjectNEGATIVE IMPACT
dc.subjectNON-INCOME DIMENSIONS
dc.subjectOBSERVED CHANGE
dc.subjectOBSERVED CHANGES
dc.subjectOBSERVED GROWTH
dc.subjectOBSERVED GROWTH RATE
dc.subjectOBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPENSIONS
dc.subjectPER CAPITA EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectPER CAPITA INCOME
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
dc.subjectPOOR POPULATION
dc.subjectPOPULATION GROWTH
dc.subjectPOPULATION SIZE
dc.subjectPOSITIVE GROWTH
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectPOVERTY ANALYSIS
dc.subjectPOVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT OF GROWTH
dc.subjectPOVERTY INCIDENCE
dc.subjectPOVERTY INCREASES
dc.subjectPOVERTY INDEX
dc.subjectPOVERTY INDICES
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURE
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURES
dc.subjectPOVERTY OUTCOMES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPOVERTY-REDUCING GROWTH
dc.subjectPRO-POOR
dc.subjectPRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subjectPROGRESS
dc.subjectPURCHASING POWER
dc.subjectPURCHASING POWER PARITY
dc.subjectRATE OF GROWTH
dc.subjectREDUCED POVERTY
dc.subjectREDUCTION IN POVERTY
dc.subjectRELATIVE GAINS
dc.subjectRESPECT
dc.subjectRICHER COUNTRIES
dc.subjectSIGNIFICANT REDUCTION
dc.subjectSQUARED POVERTY GAP
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectVULNERABILITY
dc.subjectWELFARE LEVEL
dc.titleMeasuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth within an Elasticity Frameworken
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okr.crossref.titleMeasuring The Pro-Poorness Of Income Growth Within An Elasticity Framework
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T10:05:14.237297Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/10/7126791/measuring-pro-poorness-income-growth-within-elasticity-framework
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid793481468136183427
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-4035
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000016406_20061012145807
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum7126791
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okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topicServices and Transfers to Poor
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population
okr.topicRural Development
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group (DECRG)
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