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IS POVERTY INCREASING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD?
Author(s) -
Chen Shaohua,
Datt Gaurav,
Ravallion Martin
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1994.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - poverty , economics , latin americans , purchasing power parity , development economics , developing country , dominance (genetics) , consumption (sociology) , purchasing power , population , income distribution , demographic economics , economic growth , inequality , demography , macroeconomics , political science , exchange rate , biology , social science , biochemistry , sociology , gene , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics
We assess the developing world's progress in reducing poverty during the late 1980s using new data on the distribution of household consumption or income per person for 44 countries. Local currencies are adjusted to purchasing power parity. To assess robustness, restricted dominance tests are applied to the poverty comparisons. An overall decrease in poverty incidence is indicated over a wide range of poverty lines and measures. However the change is small, and numbers of poor increased at roughly the rate of population growth. The experience was diverse across regions and countries; poverty fell in South and East Asia, while it rose in Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa.