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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect.

Link http://www-wds.worldbank.…64258546&theSitePK=523679
Author Ravallion, Martin
Date 01-Apr-2005
Institute World Bank
Tags poverty, developing, death, birth, rate

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  5. Poverty and reform of financial support to the poor

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