Growth Still Is Good for the Poor

Average incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as overall average incomes. This is because, in a global data set spanning 121 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest quintiles are uncorrelated with changes in average inco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dollar, David, Kleineberg, Tatjana, Kraay, Aart
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22707