How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?

Drawing on data from 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries, the authors find that there was a net decrease in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor peo...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION AVERAGE POVERTY CAPITA GROWTH CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION POVERTY COUNTRY LEVEL CPI DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ERROR TERM EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES GINI INDEX GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH GROWTH HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME MEAN INCOME STUDY INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY LOCAL CURRENCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN DISTANCE MEAN INCOME MEASURING POVERTY MEDIAN POVERTY MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL SURVEYS NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PERSONAL INCOME POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL RELATIVE POVERTY RISING RISING INEQUALITY SAMPLE SURVEYS SAVING RATE SECONDARY SOURCES SOCIAL EXCLUSION TRANSITION ECONOMIES WELFARE IMPACT WELFARE INDICATORS WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION
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spelling	okr-10986-197952021-04-23T14:03:46Z How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s? Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE POVERTY ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION AVERAGE POVERTY CAPITA GROWTH CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION POVERTY COUNTRY LEVEL CPI DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ERROR TERM EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES GINI INDEX GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH GROWTH HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME MEAN INCOME STUDY INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY LOCAL CURRENCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN DISTANCE MEAN INCOME MEASURING POVERTY MEDIAN POVERTY MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL SURVEYS NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PERSONAL INCOME POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL RELATIVE POVERTY RISING RISING INEQUALITY SAMPLE SURVEYS SAVING RATE SECONDARY SOURCES SOCIAL EXCLUSION TRANSITION ECONOMIES WELFARE IMPACT WELFARE INDICATORS WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION Drawing on data from 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries, the authors find that there was a net decrease in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed little in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and rose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The two main proximate causes of the disappointing rate of poverty reduction: too little economic growth in many of the poorest countries, and persistent inequalities (in both income and other essential measures) that kept the poor from participating in the growth that did occur. 2014-08-27T21:03:58Z 2014-08-27T21:03:58Z 2000-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/08/443622/worlds-poorest-fare-1990s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19795 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2409 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION AVERAGE POVERTY CAPITA GROWTH CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION POVERTY COUNTRY LEVEL CPI DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ERROR TERM EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES GINI INDEX GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH GROWTH HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME MEAN INCOME STUDY INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY LOCAL CURRENCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN DISTANCE MEAN INCOME MEASURING POVERTY MEDIAN POVERTY MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL SURVEYS NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PERSONAL INCOME POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL RELATIVE POVERTY RISING RISING INEQUALITY SAMPLE SURVEYS SAVING RATE SECONDARY SOURCES SOCIAL EXCLUSION TRANSITION ECONOMIES WELFARE IMPACT WELFARE INDICATORS WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION
spellingShingle	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION AVERAGE POVERTY CAPITA GROWTH CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION POVERTY COUNTRY LEVEL CPI DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ERROR TERM EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES GINI INDEX GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH GROWTH HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME MEAN INCOME STUDY INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY LOCAL CURRENCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN DISTANCE MEAN INCOME MEASURING POVERTY MEDIAN POVERTY MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL SURVEYS NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PERSONAL INCOME POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL LEVEL RELATIVE POVERTY RISING RISING INEQUALITY SAMPLE SURVEYS SAVING RATE SECONDARY SOURCES SOCIAL EXCLUSION TRANSITION ECONOMIES WELFARE IMPACT WELFARE INDICATORS WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2409
description	Drawing on data from 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries, the authors find that there was a net decrease in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed little in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and rose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The two main proximate causes of the disappointing rate of poverty reduction: too little economic growth in many of the poorest countries, and persistent inequalities (in both income and other essential measures) that kept the poor from participating in the growth that did occur.
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author	Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin
author_facet	Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin
author_sort	Chen, Shaohua
title	How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
title_short	How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
title_full	How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
title_fullStr	How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
title_full_unstemmed	How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
title_sort	how did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/08/443622/worlds-poorest-fare-1990s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19795
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