and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

non-poor in the developing world. The paper estimates that selective mortality - whereby poorer people tend to have higher … death rates - accounts for 10-30% 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 …

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 …

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