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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth

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dc.contributor.authorRavallion, Martin
dc.contributor.authorChen, Shaohua
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-21T17:20:05Z
dc.date.available2014-08-21T17:20:05Z
dc.date.issued2001-08
dc.description.abstractIt is important to know how aggregate economic growth or contraction was distributed according to initial levels of living. In particular, to what extent can it be said that growth was "pro-poor?" There are problems with past methods of addressing this question, notably that the measures used are inconsistent with the properties that are considered desirable for a measure of the level of poverty. The authors provide some new tools for assessing to what extent the aggregate growth process in an economy is pro-poor. The key measurement tools is the "growth incidence curve," which gives growth rates by quantiles (such as percentiles) ranked by income. Taking the area under this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of pro-poor growth consistent with the Watts index for the level of poverty. The authors give examples using survey data for China during the 1990s. Over 1990-99, the ordinary growth rate of household income per capita in China was 7 percent a year. The growth rate by quantile varied from 3 percent for the poorest percentile to 11 percent for the richest, while the rate of pro-poor growth was around 4 percent. The pattern was reversed for a few years in the mid-1990s, when the rate of pro-poor growth rose to 10 percent a year--above the ordinary growth rate of 8 percent.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570715/measuring-pro-poor-growth
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2666
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19560
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 2666
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectAVERAGE INCOMES
dc.subjectCAPITAL CONTROLS
dc.subjectCOUNTRY SIZE
dc.subjectCRIME
dc.subjectCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDEVELOPING WORLD
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
dc.subjectDIRECT INVESTMENT
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL COMPONENT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subjectECONOMICS LETTERS
dc.subjectEXCHANGE RATE
dc.subjectEXCHANGE RATE REGIME
dc.subjectEXPLAINING INEQUALITY
dc.subjectGROWTH PROCESS
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectGROWTH RATES
dc.subjectHIGH GROWTH
dc.subjectHIGH GROWTH RATE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
dc.subjectINCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subjectINEQUALITY CONVERGENCE
dc.subjectINEQUALITY FALLS
dc.subjectINEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
dc.subjectINEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subjectJOB CREATION
dc.subjectLABOR DEMAND
dc.subjectLIBERALIZATION
dc.subjectLOCAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectMEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectMEAN GROWTH
dc.subjectMEAN INCOME
dc.subjectMEAN INCOMES
dc.subjectNATIONAL ACCOUNTS
dc.subjectOBSERVED CHANGES
dc.subjectPER-CAPITA INCOME
dc.subjectPOLICY
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINES
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURE
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCING
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subjectPRO-POOR
dc.subjectPRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subjectRELATIVE PRICES
dc.subjectRESEARCH
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectSECOND-ORDER DOMINANCE
dc.subjectTRANSITION ECONOMIES
dc.subjectURBAN AREAS
dc.subjectVIOLENCE
dc.titleMeasuring Pro-Poor Growthen
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okr.crossref.titleMeasuring Pro-Poor Growth
okr.date.disclosure2001-08-31
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T10:05:38.978031Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570715/measuring-pro-poor-growth
okr.globalpracticeMacroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeGovernance
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid747531468746709289
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2666
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000094946_01092004013092
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum1570715
okr.identifier.reportWPS2666
okr.language.supporteden
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okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryChina
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Public Health Promotion
okr.topicServices and Transfers to Poor
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Conditions and Volatility
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topicGovernance::Governance Indicators
okr.unitPoverty, Development Research Group
okr.volume1
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