 MEASURING PRO‐POORNESS: A UNIFYING APPROACH WITH NEW RESULTSB. Essama‐Nssah and Peter J. Lambert Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, vol. 55, issue 3, 752-778 Abstract: Recent economic literature on pro‐poor growth measurement is drawn together, using a common analytical framework which lends itself to some significant extensions. First, a new class of pro‐poorness measures is defined, to complement existing classes, with similarities and differences which are fully discussed. Second, all of these measures of pro‐poorness can be decomposed across income sources or components of consumption expenditure (depending on the application). This permits the analyst to “unbundle” a pattern of growth, revealing the contributions to overall pro‐poorness of constituent parts. Third, all of these pro‐poorness measures can be modified to measure pro‐poorness at percentiles. An application to consumption expenditures in Indonesia in the 1990s reveals that the poverty reduction achieved remains far below what would have been achieved under distributional neutrality. This can be tracked back to changes in expenditure components. Date: 2009 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:revinw:v:55:y:2009:i:3:p:752-778 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Review of Income and Wealth is currently edited by Conchita D'Ambrosio and Robert J. Hill More articles in Review of Income and Wealth from International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Contact information at EDIRC. |
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