On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World

Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing w...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
PPP
TFR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5782586/contribution-demographic-change-aggregate-poverty-measures-developing-world
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8927