Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Non-Income Dimensions

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Journal: World Development
Year: 2008
Volume: 36
Issue: 6
Pages: 1021-1047

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Abstract

Summary Current concepts and measures of pro-poor growth are entirely focused on the income dimension of well-being. This neglects non-income dimensions of poverty as well as the multidimensionality of poverty and well-being. In this paper, we extend the pro-poor growth toolbox to individual and composite measures of non-income achievements. In particular, we apply growth incidence curves, the Ravallion-Chen pro-poor growth rate and the poverty-equivalent growth rate to a range of non-income indicators such as education, mortality, vaccinations, stunting, and a multidimensional well-being measure. We are thereby able to study improvements in these dimensions of well-being at various points of the distribution of those indicators as well as at various points of the income distribution. This way we can determine whether improvements in non-income indicators were pro-poor in an absolute or relative sense, and whether they benefited the income poor more than others. We illustrate this empirically for Bolivia during 1989-98.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:wdevel:v:36:y:2008:i:6:p:1021-1047
Journal Field
Development
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25