Growth, Inequality, and Poverty : Looking Beyond Averages

The evidence is compelling that the poor in developing countries do typically share in the gains from rising aggregate affluence and in the losses from aggregate contraction. But how much do poor people share in growth? Do they gain more in some se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/02/1003166/growth-inequality-poverty-looking-beyond-averages
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19704