A poverty-inequality trade-off?
By: Martin Ravallion.
Contributors: World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 3579; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 3579.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries.; Income distribution -- Developing countries.; Equality -- Developing countries.
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. "--World Bank web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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