Is Economic Growth Good for the Poor? Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means

By James E. Foster, M. Székely. 2001

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Poverty and economic growth: a review (2016, background): “Foster and Szekely (2001) state how, for example, Ravallion (2000) employs absolute poverty standards of $1 and $2 a day to identify the poor and then aggregates using the most common measures of poverty, the headcount ratio and the per capita poverty trap.”
A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice (2013, background): “For example, Foster and Székely (2008) computed the growth in general means for different a to show that although the growth rate mean incomes in Mexico and Costa Rica were the same, the growth of general means was starkly different.”
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010, unknown): “Foster and Szekely (2008) use an inequality averse general mean or ede as a “poor income standard” having no poverty line but undeniably emphasizing the poorest incomes.”