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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth

dc.contributor.author Ravallion, Martin
dc.contributor.author Chen, Shaohua
dc.date.accessioned 2014-08-21T17:20:05Z
dc.date.available 2014-08-21T17:20:05Z
dc.date.issued 2001-08
dc.description.abstract It 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.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570715/measuring-pro-poor-growth
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19560
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2666
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject AVERAGE INCOMES
dc.subject CAPITAL CONTROLS
dc.subject COUNTRY SIZE
dc.subject CRIME
dc.subject CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
dc.subject DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject DEVELOPING WORLD
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
dc.subject DIRECT INVESTMENT
dc.subject DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
dc.subject DISTRIBUTIONAL COMPONENT
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject ECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subject ECONOMICS LETTERS
dc.subject EXCHANGE RATE
dc.subject EXCHANGE RATE REGIME
dc.subject EXPLAINING INEQUALITY
dc.subject GROWTH PROCESS
dc.subject GROWTH RATE
dc.subject GROWTH RATES
dc.subject HIGH GROWTH
dc.subject HIGH GROWTH RATE
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
dc.subject INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject INEQUALITY CONVERGENCE
dc.subject INEQUALITY FALLS
dc.subject INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
dc.subject INEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subject JOB CREATION
dc.subject LABOR DEMAND
dc.subject LIBERALIZATION
dc.subject LOCAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subject MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subject MEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subject MEAN GROWTH
dc.subject MEAN INCOME
dc.subject MEAN INCOMES
dc.subject NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
dc.subject OBSERVED CHANGES
dc.subject PER-CAPITA INCOME
dc.subject POLICY
dc.subject POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject POVERTY LINE
dc.subject POVERTY LINES
dc.subject POVERTY MEASURE
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCING
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject PRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subject PRO-POOR
dc.subject PRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subject RELATIVE PRICES
dc.subject RESEARCH
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject SECOND-ORDER DOMINANCE
dc.subject TRANSITION ECONOMIES
dc.subject URBAN AREAS
dc.subject VIOLENCE
dc.title Measuring Pro-Poor Growth en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.date.disclosure 2001-08-31
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570715/measuring-pro-poor-growth
okr.globalpractice Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice Poverty
okr.globalpractice Governance
okr.globalpractice Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-2666
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000094946_01092004013092
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 1570715
okr.identifier.report WPS2666
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2001/09/28/000094946_01092004013092/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf en
okr.region.administrative East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.country China
okr.theme Social protection and risk management
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population :: Public Health Promotion
okr.topic Services and Transfers to Poor
okr.topic Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Economic Conditions and Volatility
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Inequality
okr.topic Health Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic Governance :: Governance Indicators
okr.unit Poverty, Development Research Group
okr.volume 1
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