.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …

growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in …, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by … changes in inequality accounting for almost all the changes in poverty. The elasticity of poverty with respect to both growth …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …