On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
By: Martin Ravallion.
Contributors: World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 3580; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 3580.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Poor -- Developing countries.; Mortality -- Developing countries.; Fertility, Human -- Developing countries.
Description: "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 world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s.  However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect.  The net impact of differential natural population growth represents 10-50 percent of the trend rate of poverty reduction. "--World Bank web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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