A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?

The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people.

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2005-04
Subjects:ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ADJUSTMENT PERIOD, AVERAGE INCOME, COUNTRY LEVEL, DATA SET, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC REFORM, ECONOMIC REVIEW, ECONOMIC THEORY, EMPIRICAL LITERATURE, EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS, EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP, EMPIRICAL RESULT, EMPIRICAL STUDIES, FALLING POVERTY, FINANCIAL FLOWS, GROWTH, GROWTH PRO-POOR, GROWTH RATES, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, INCOME, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS, INCOME INEQUALITY, INCOME SHARE, INDIVIDUAL INCOMES, INEQUALITY, INEQUALITY MEASURE, INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT, INEQUALITY MEASURES, LINEAR REGRESSION, LIVING STANDARDS, LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION, MARKET ECONOMY, MEAN INCOME, MEAN INCOMES, MEASUREMENT ERROR, MEASUREMENT ERRORS, MEASURING POVERTY, NEGATIVE CORRELATION, NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY ISSUES, POLICY RESEARCH, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR PEOPLE, POSITIVE COEFFICIENT, POSITIVE CORRELATION, POSITIVE GROWTH, POVERTY, POVERTY INCIDENCE, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASURE, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY RISES, PRIVATE CONSUMPTION, PROPORTIONATE CHANGES, PUBLIC GOODS, PURCHASING POWER, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, QUALITY GROWTH, RAPID GROWTH, RELATIVE POVERTY, RISING INEQUALITY, SERIES DATA, TRANSITION ECONOMIES, URBANIZATION,
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spelling dig-okr-1098689282024-08-08T17:24:26Z A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off? Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE ABSOLUTE POVERTY ADJUSTMENT PERIOD AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC THEORY EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EMPIRICAL RESULT EMPIRICAL STUDIES FALLING POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS GROWTH GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INDIVIDUAL INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES LINEAR REGRESSION LIVING STANDARDS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET ECONOMY MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ISSUES POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY RISES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PROPORTIONATE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY GROWTH RAPID GROWTH RELATIVE POVERTY RISING INEQUALITY SERIES DATA TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people. 2012-06-25T15:25:46Z 2012-06-25T15:25:46Z 2005-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5780454/poverty-inequality-trade-off https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8928 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3579 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC
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topic ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
AVERAGE INCOME
COUNTRY LEVEL
DATA SET
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS
EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP
EMPIRICAL RESULT
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
FALLING POVERTY
FINANCIAL FLOWS
GROWTH
GROWTH PRO-POOR
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
INEQUALITY MEASURES
LINEAR REGRESSION
LIVING STANDARDS
LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
MARKET ECONOMY
MEAN INCOME
MEAN INCOMES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MEASURING POVERTY
NEGATIVE CORRELATION
NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POSITIVE COEFFICIENT
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE GROWTH
POVERTY
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY RISES
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PROPORTIONATE CHANGES
PUBLIC GOODS
PURCHASING POWER
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
QUALITY GROWTH
RAPID GROWTH
RELATIVE POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
SERIES DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBANIZATION
ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
AVERAGE INCOME
COUNTRY LEVEL
DATA SET
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS
EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP
EMPIRICAL RESULT
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
FALLING POVERTY
FINANCIAL FLOWS
GROWTH
GROWTH PRO-POOR
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
INEQUALITY MEASURES
LINEAR REGRESSION
LIVING STANDARDS
LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
MARKET ECONOMY
MEAN INCOME
MEAN INCOMES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MEASURING POVERTY
NEGATIVE CORRELATION
NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POSITIVE COEFFICIENT
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE GROWTH
POVERTY
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY RISES
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PROPORTIONATE CHANGES
PUBLIC GOODS
PURCHASING POWER
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
QUALITY GROWTH
RAPID GROWTH
RELATIVE POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
SERIES DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBANIZATION
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
AVERAGE INCOME
COUNTRY LEVEL
DATA SET
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS
EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP
EMPIRICAL RESULT
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
FALLING POVERTY
FINANCIAL FLOWS
GROWTH
GROWTH PRO-POOR
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
INEQUALITY MEASURES
LINEAR REGRESSION
LIVING STANDARDS
LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
MARKET ECONOMY
MEAN INCOME
MEAN INCOMES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MEASURING POVERTY
NEGATIVE CORRELATION
NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POSITIVE COEFFICIENT
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE GROWTH
POVERTY
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY RISES
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PROPORTIONATE CHANGES
PUBLIC GOODS
PURCHASING POWER
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
QUALITY GROWTH
RAPID GROWTH
RELATIVE POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
SERIES DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBANIZATION
ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
AVERAGE INCOME
COUNTRY LEVEL
DATA SET
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS
EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP
EMPIRICAL RESULT
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
FALLING POVERTY
FINANCIAL FLOWS
GROWTH
GROWTH PRO-POOR
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
INEQUALITY MEASURES
LINEAR REGRESSION
LIVING STANDARDS
LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
MARKET ECONOMY
MEAN INCOME
MEAN INCOMES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MEASURING POVERTY
NEGATIVE CORRELATION
NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POSITIVE COEFFICIENT
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE GROWTH
POVERTY
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY RISES
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PROPORTIONATE CHANGES
PUBLIC GOODS
PURCHASING POWER
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
QUALITY GROWTH
RAPID GROWTH
RELATIVE POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
SERIES DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBANIZATION
Ravallion, Martin
A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
description The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people.
topic_facet ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ADJUSTMENT PERIOD
AVERAGE INCOME
COUNTRY LEVEL
DATA SET
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL PROBLEMS
EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP
EMPIRICAL RESULT
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
FALLING POVERTY
FINANCIAL FLOWS
GROWTH
GROWTH PRO-POOR
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
INEQUALITY MEASURES
LINEAR REGRESSION
LIVING STANDARDS
LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
MARKET ECONOMY
MEAN INCOME
MEAN INCOMES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MEASURING POVERTY
NEGATIVE CORRELATION
NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY ISSUES
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POSITIVE COEFFICIENT
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE GROWTH
POVERTY
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY RISES
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PROPORTIONATE CHANGES
PUBLIC GOODS
PURCHASING POWER
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
QUALITY GROWTH
RAPID GROWTH
RELATIVE POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
SERIES DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBANIZATION
author Ravallion, Martin
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title A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_short A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_full A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_fullStr A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
title_full_unstemmed A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?
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publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
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