A poverty-inequality trade-off?
Ravallion, Martin
- Washington, D. C. World Bank 2005
- 21 p.
- Policy Research Working Paper no. 3579 .
Includes bibliographical references
"""The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute gap between the rich and the poor must in general be willing to see lower absolute levels of living for poor people. ""--World Bank web site."
Poverty - Developing countries Income distribution - Developing countries Equality -Developing countries