A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?

The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute povert...

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Main Author:	Ravallion, Martin
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE ABSOLUTE POVERTY ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC THEORY EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EMPIRICAL RESULT EMPIRICAL STUDIES FALLING POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS GROWTH GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES LINEAR REGRESSION LIVING STANDARDS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET ECONOMY MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY RISES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PROPORTIONATE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH RAPID GROWTH RELATIVE POVERTY RISING INEQUALITY SERIES DATA TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5780454/poverty-inequality-trade-off http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8928

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spelling	okr-10986-89282021-04-23T14:02:42Z A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off? Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE ABSOLUTE POVERTY ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC THEORY EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EMPIRICAL RESULT EMPIRICAL STUDIES FALLING POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS GROWTH GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES LINEAR REGRESSION LIVING STANDARDS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET ECONOMY MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY RISES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PROPORTIONATE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH RAPID GROWTH RELATIVE POVERTY RISING INEQUALITY SERIES DATA TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people. 2012-06-25T15:25:46Z 2012-06-25T15:25:46Z 2005-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5780454/poverty-inequality-trade-off http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8928 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3579 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE ABSOLUTE POVERTY ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC THEORY EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EMPIRICAL RESULT EMPIRICAL STUDIES FALLING POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS GROWTH GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES LINEAR REGRESSION LIVING STANDARDS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET ECONOMY MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY RISES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PROPORTIONATE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH RAPID GROWTH RELATIVE POVERTY RISING INEQUALITY SERIES DATA TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION
spellingShingle	ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE ABSOLUTE POVERTY ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC THEORY EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EMPIRICAL RESULT EMPIRICAL STUDIES FALLING POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS GROWTH GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES LINEAR REGRESSION LIVING STANDARDS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET ECONOMY MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY RISES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PROPORTIONATE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH RAPID GROWTH RELATIVE POVERTY RISING INEQUALITY SERIES DATA TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION Ravallion, Martin A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3579
description	The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Ravallion, Martin
author_facet	Ravallion, Martin
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title	A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_short	A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_full	A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_fullStr	A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_full_unstemmed	A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_sort	poverty-inequality trade-off?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5780454/poverty-inequality-trade-off http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8928
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