TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravallion, Martin
TI  - A poverty-inequality trade-off?
U1  - 339.46 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D. C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Poverty - Developing countries
KW  -  Income distribution - Developing countries
KW  - Equality -Developing countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - """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."
ER  -