Measuring Pro-poor GrowthRavallion and Chen provide some new tools for assessing to what extent the aggregate growth process in an economy is pro-poor. The key measurement tool is the 'growth incidence curve', which gives growth rates by quantiles (such as percentiles) ranked by income. Taking the area under this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of pro-poor growth consistent with the Watts index for the level of poverty. |
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90 Percentile absolute gain annum China's National Bureau contraction was distributed curve for China data for China Datoloum Datt and Ravallion distribution of income economic growth Growth in mean growth incidence curve growth or contraction growth should satisfy headcount index household income income per capita income per person index of poverty inequality Letting p vary level of poverty Lorenz curve mean growth rate mean income measure of pro-poor Measuring pro-poor growth mravallion@worldbank.org ordinary growth rate p'th quantile Pen's parade percent percentile to 11 Policy Research poor poorest percentile poorest quintile poverty has fallen poverty line poverty measure poverty reducing poverty reduction quantile function quantile varied ranked by household ranked by income rate by quantile rate of pro-poor Ravallion and Chen reduction RELATIONS/PACIFIC STUDIES LIBRARY Research Working Paper schen@worldbank.org second-order dominance Shorrocks standard axioms STUDIES LIBRARY UNIVERSITY transfer axioms UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA urban and rural Watts index World Bank