Deaton, Angus2014-02-202014-02-202001-10World Bank Research Observerhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/17125As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth-both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most notably India)-provides fuel for the argument that economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing them in ways that have little or nothing to do with the actual experience of the poor. At the domestic level, the problems in measuring poverty are important not only for the world count but also for tracking income poverty within individual countries. Yet, in many countries, there are large and growing discrepancies between the survey data-the source of poverty counts-and the national accounts-the source of the measure of economic growth. Thus economic growth, as measured, has at best a weak relationship with poverty, as measured.en-USCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGOAGRICULTURAL LABORERSAGRICULTURAL SECTORANTIPOVERTY POLICIESAVERAGE INCOMESCALORIES PER PERSONCALORIES PER PERSON PER DAYCHANGES IN POVERTYCONSUMER PRICE INDEXCONSUMPTION DATACONSUMPTION EXPENDITURECONSUMPTION GROWTHCONSUMPTION POVERTYCURRENT POVERTYDECLINE IN POVERTYDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT REPORTDIMENSIONS OF POVERTYECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMICSELIMINATION OF POVERTYESTIMATES OF POVERTYEXCHANGE RATEEXCHANGE RATESFOOD AVAILABILITYFOOD CONSUMPTIONFOOD EXPENDITUREFOOD EXPENDITURESFOOD SHAREFOOD STAPLESGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEADCOUNT RATIOHOUSEHOLD COMPOSITIONHOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYSHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHOUSINGHUMAN DEVELOPMENTHUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEXINCIDENCE ANALYSISINCOMEINCOME DATAINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME GROWTHINCOME LEVELSINCOME POVERTYINCREASING INEQUALITYINDIVIDUAL COUNTRIESINEQUALITYINFANT MORTALITYINTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSINTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINELIVING STANDARDSLONG RUNLOW-INCOME COUNTRIESMARGINAL PROPENSITYMEASUREMENT OF POVERTYMEASURING POVERTYNATIONAL ACCOUNTSNATIONAL POVERTYNONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONSPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONPER CAPITA EXPENDITUREPER CAPITA GROWTHPER CAPITA INCOMEPOINT ESTIMATEPOLICY RESEARCHPOLITICAL SUPPORTPOORPOOR COUNTRIESPOOR PEOPLEPOORER HOUSEHOLDSPOVERTY ALLEVIATIONPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MEASUREMENTPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY PROFILEPOVERTY RATEPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPROMOTING GROWTHPUBLIC EXPENDITUREPUBLIC EXPENDITURESRAPID GROWTHREDUCED POVERTYREDUCTION OF POVERTYREGIONAL DIFFERENCESRELATIVE PRICESRURALRURAL AREASRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL PEOPLERURAL POVERTYRURAL POVERTY LINESRURAL POVERTY RATESSCHOOL ATTENDANCESTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTSUBSISTENCETRANSITION ECONOMIESURBAN POVERTYURBAN WORKERSJournal ArticleWorld Bank10.1596/17125