Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages

By M. Ravallion. 2001

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The evidence is compelling that the poor in developing countries do typically share in the gains from rising aggregate affluence and in the losses from aggregate contraction. But how much do poor people share in growth? Do they gain more in some settings than others? Do some gain while others lose? Does pro-poor growth mean more or less aggregate growth? Recent theories and evidence suggest some answers, but deeper microeconomic empirical work is needed on growth and distributed change. Only then will we have a firm basis for identifying the specific policies and programs needed to complement and possibly modify growth-oriented policies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence (2004, background): “Besley and Burgess (2003), Bourguignon (2004) and Ravallion (2001) illustrate the relationships between poverty, growth and inequality, providing examples of how both growth and inequality changes influence poverty.”
How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty? (2013, background): “14 These forecasts factor in historical gaps between growth rates in the survey means and growth rates in private consumption per capita in the NAS.”
Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China (2018, background): “…food production and poverty reduction (Fischer and Hajdu, 2015), the anti-poverty effect of economic input (Ravallion, 2001; Ravallion and Chen, 2007; Montalvo and Ravallion, 2010; Barrett and Carter, 2013; Lü, 2015; Gao et al., 2015) and mapping of poverty…”
Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context (2015, result): “There are, however, considerable cross-country differences with respect to the relative contributions of income and inequality changes, a result that supports earlier findings (e.g. Ravallion, 2001).”
Globalization and Poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario? (2011, methodology): “;) while others contradict this assertion (Fosu and Mold, 2008; Lundberg and Squire, 2003; Ravallion, 2001 & 2006).”
Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice (2004, background): “It allows 1See for example Gallup, Radelet and Warner (1998) and Dollar and Kraay (2002) for evidence that growth helps reduce poverty and the concerns of Ravallion (2001, 2002) about their approach.”
Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003 (2007, background): “If the rich raise their caloric intake substantially, the country's average might increase even though the majority has not experienced any real gain (Ravallion 2001).”
Inequality, poverty and economic growth (2020, background): “Ravallion (2001) examines the micro data and shows that the inequality, growth and poverty relationship is quite complicated.”
Openness and inequality in developing countries: a review of theory and recent evidence (2005, background): “9 Examples of this approach include Beyer, Rojas, and Vergara (1999), Robbins (1996), Gindling and Robbins (2001), te Velde and Morrissey (forthcoming), and te Velde (2003).”
Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000 (2005, background): “The current debate has been focussed on the degree to which economic growth reduces poverty (Ravallion and Chen, 1997; Dollar and Kraay, 2000; Ravallion, 2001; Chen and Ravallion, 2001; Sala-i-Martin, 2002, and Bourguignon and Morrisson, 2002.”
The Role of Tourism in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Assessment (2014, background): “One dollar per day per person refers to absolute poverty while US$2 per day per person refers to moderate poverty (Chen and Ravallion, 2001).”