On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World

On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World

Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in 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 w...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGE SPECIFIC FERTILITY RATES
AGED
AGING
BIRTH RATE
BIRTH RATES
BIRTHS
BIRTHS/100
BURDEN OF DISEASE
CENSUSES
COMMUNITY HEALTH
CONDOMS
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
COUNTERFACTUAL
CRUDE BIRTH RATE
CRUDE DEATH RATE
CURRENCY
DEATH RATE
DEATH RATES
DEATHS
DEATHS/
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EPIDEMIOLOGY
FAMILY PLANNING
FERTILITY RATES
HEALTH INDICATORS
HIV/AIDS
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSEHOLD WEALTH
INCOME
INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
LIVING STANDARDS
MORALITY
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
MORTALITY DATA
MORTALITY RATES
NUTRITION
POOR
POPULATION GROWTH
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY REDUCTION
PPP
PUBLIC HEALTH
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
RURAL POVERTY
SAVINGS
TARGETING
TFR
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE
TOTAL POPULATION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5782586/contribution-demographic-change-aggregate-poverty-measures-developing-world
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8927

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5782586/contribution-demographic-change-aggregate-poverty-measures-developing-world
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8927

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