Measuring pro-poor growth

Type Journal Article - Economics letters
Title Measuring pro-poor growth
Author(s)
Volume 78
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2003
Page numbers 93-99
URL http://dad.ecn.ulaval.ca/features/files/Rav_Chen_2003.pdf
Abstract
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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