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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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relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87 |
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