The Individual Poverty Incidence of Growth. (18th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana
• Is Part Of: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics. Volume 82:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 1295
• Page End: 1321
• Publication Date: 2020-03-18
• Subjects: Economic history -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 330.9
• DOI: 10.1111/obes.12362
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-9049

Abstract

Abstract: The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth. Measurement tools endorsing this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamic in the population: there can be groups of the population made poorer or non‐poor made poor by growth. We propose an approach that allows measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth and show how it is related with existing models. We apply our framework to evaluate the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993–2000 with the 2000–07 and 2007–14 growth spells.