Article2001

How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s?

482 citations0/0 files storedReview of Income and Wealth

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

Income, Poverty, and Inequality International Development and Aid Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Abstract

Drawing on 297 national sample surveys spanning 88 countries, we find that there was a net decrease in the overall incidence of both absolute and relative consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor by various definitions. The incidence of absolute poverty fell in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East–North Africa, while it rose in Sub‐Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe–Central Asia. Over the whole data set, interpersonal distribution improved slightly from the point of view of the poor, due mainly to growth in China.

Citations in this library

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 482 citations exist upstream.

References

1987Commodities and Capabilities 1997Divergence, Big Time 1997What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty?2002True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys Alone 1997Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?1991QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD 1999Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Old and New Perspectives on the Policy Issues

Cited by

2004Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer 2002The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality 2009How Not to Count the Poor 2003Halving Global Poverty 2008What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality?2007Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004 2016A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results 2008Financial Development and Poverty Reduction Can there Be a Benefit without a Cost?

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.