Title: On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Fertility, Human, Human Fertility, Mortality, Poor
Places: Developing countries
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57