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The Role of Inequality for Poverty Reduction

Using World Bank PovcalNet data from 1974-2018 for 135 countries, this paper approximates the identity that links growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn, examines t...

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Main Author: Bergstrom, Katy
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
MEAN INCOME
HEADCOUNT
POVERTY
INEQUALITY
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY RATE
ELASTICITY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/969971600710472848/The-Role-of-Inequality-for-Poverty-Reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34507

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/969971600710472848/The-Role-of-Inequality-for-Poverty-Reduction
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34507

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