CHANGES IN POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The World Bank Research Observer
- Vol. 4 (2) , 167-185
- https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/4.2.167
Abstract
This paper presents new data on poverty, inequality, and growth in those developing countries of the world for which the requisite statistics are available. Eco-nomic growth is found generally but not always to reduce poverty. Growth, however, is found to have very little to do with income inequality. Thus the “economic laws“ linking the rate of growth and the distribution of benefits receive only very tenuous empirical support here.Keywords
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