Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

Redistribution alleviated poverty in India, though growth was quantitatively more important. Improved distribution countervailed the adverse effect of monsoon failure in the late 1980s on rural poverty. However, worsening distribution in Brazil, associated with the macroeconomic shocks of the 1980s, mitigated poverty alleviation through the limited growth that occurred

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Year of publication:	1992
Authors:	Datt, Gaurav
Other Persons:	Ravallion, Martin (contributor)
Published in:	Journal of development economics. - Amsterdam : Elsevier, ISSN 0304-3878, ZDB-ID 187117-1. - Vol. 38.1992, 2, p. 275-295
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Sozialer Indikator \| Social indicator \| Brasilien \| Brazil \| Indien \| India \| 1977-1988

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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