Measuring pro-poor growth.

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00205-7MaRDI QIDQ1853718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen

Publication date 22 January 2003

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(02)00205-7

zbMATH Keywords

ChinaEconomic growthPoverty measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Economic growth models (91B62) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Review text

We measure the rate of pro-poor growth by the mean growth rate of the poor, which equals the rate of change in the Watts index of poverty normalized by the headcount index. Examples are given using data for China during the 1990s.

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