A Decomposition of Poverty Trends Across Regions: the Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty

Adriaan Kalwij and Arjan Verschoor

No RP2005-36, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of poverty to aggregate changes in income distribution. We illustrate the quantitative importance of such an approach through decomposing poverty trends observed in the six major developing regions over the period 1980-98 under the assumption of a log-normal income distribution.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Equality and inequality; Globalization; Income distribution; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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