TY - BOOK ID - 136028297 TI - How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s? AU - Ravallion, Martin AU - Chen, Shaohua PY - 1999 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Absolute Poverty KW - Aggregate Poverty KW - Consumer Price Index KW - Consumption KW - Consumption Basket KW - Consumption Expenditure KW - Consumption Expenditures KW - Consumption Per Capita KW - Consumption Poverty KW - Debt Markets KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Health Systems Development and Reform KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Higher Inequality KW - Household Living Standards KW - Household Size KW - Incidence Of Poverty KW - Income Distribution KW - Inequality KW - Poor Countries KW - Population Policies KW - Poverty Diagnostics KW - Poverty Line KW - Poverty Lines KW - Poverty Measures KW - Poverty Monitoring and Analysis KW - Poverty Rate KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Poverty Reduction Strategies KW - Pro-Poor Growth KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Poverty Reduction KW - Services and Transfers to Poor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136028297 AB - August 2000 - Between 1987 and 1998, the incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed little in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and rose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Too little economic growth in the poorest countries and persistent inequalities (in income and other measures) are the main reasons for the disappointing rate of poverty reduction. Drawing on data from 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries, Chen and Ravallion find that there was a net decrease in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed little in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and rose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The two main proximate causes of the disappointing rate of poverty reduction: too little economic growth in many of the poorest countries, and persistent inequalities (in both income and other essential measures) that kept the poor from participating in the growth that did occur. This paper-a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to monitor progress against poverty in the developing world. The authors may be contacted at schen@worldbank.org or mravallion@worldbank.org. ER -