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| Country:
| Brazil ; India ; |
| Doc Name:
| Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s |
| Keywords:
| absolute value,aggregate income,average incomes,Case Studies,Case Study,Community Characteristics,Conceptual Basis,consumption distribution,consumption poverty,cumulative growth,data collection,Data Requirements,Developing Countries,distributional changes,distributional effect,economic contraction,empirical evidence,empirical work,equivalent consumption,exchange rate,functional form,Gini index,growth component,growth rates,headcount index,Health Care,Health Status,household data,Household Expenditure Surveys,Household Expenditures,Household Income,Household Surveys,Household Welfare,income data,Income distribution,income groups,income growth,income poverty,increase poverty,inequality,inequality measures,Informal Sector,Labor Market,Labor Markets,Living Standards,Living Standards Measurement,Living Standards Measurement Study,Local Conditions,macroeconomic shocks,mean consumption,mean income,mean income constant,mean incomes,minimum wage,monetary policies,national income,Nutrition,per capita consumption,per capita income,policy analysis,population size,poverty alleviation,poverty change,poverty gap,poverty gap index,poverty index,poverty level,poverty levels,poverty line,poverty lines,poverty measure,poverty measures,purchasing power parity,questionnaire,relative contribution,relative importance,relative income,rural areas,rural poverty,sample sizes,Sample Surveys,sharp fall,significant effect,Social Services,statistical offices,survey,urban areas,urban poor,Wage Differentials. Poverty mitigation; Standard of living; Rural poverty; Cost of living; Household income; Income redistribution
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| Language:
| English |
| Major Sector:
| (Historic)Economic Policy |
| Region:
| South Asia ; Latin America & Caribbean ; |
| Rep Title:
| Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s |
| Sector:
| (Historic)Macro/non-trade |
| Topics:
| Poverty Reduction |
| SubTopics:
| Achieving Shared Growth ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Poverty Assessment ; Services & Transfers to Poor ; Safety Nets and Transfers |
| Unit Owning:
| HRS |
| Originating Unit:
| PHR |
| Collection Title: | Living standards measurement study (LSMS) working paper
; no. LSM 83 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-8213-1940-X |
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| This report shows how changes in poverty. measures can be decomposed into growth and redistribution components, and uses the methodology to study poverty in Brazil and India during the 1980s. Redistribution alleviated poverty in India, through growth was quantitatively more important. Improved distribution countervailed the adverse effect of monsoon failure in the late 1980s on rural poverty. However, worsening distribution in Brazil, associated with the macroeconomic shocks of the 1980s, mitigated poverty alleviation through the limited growth that occurred. India's higher poverty level than Brazil is accountable to India's lower mean consumption; Brazil's worse distribution mitigates the cross-country difference in poverty. |
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