Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101228 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 466
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
In this paper, we propose a new method of poverty decomposition. Our method remedies the shortcomings of existing methods and has some desirable properties such as timereversion consistency and subperiod additivity. It integrates the existing methods of growthredistribution decomposition and sector-based decomposition, because it allows us to decompose the change in poverty into growth and redistribution components for each group (e.g., regions or sectors) in the economy. We extend our method to include six components and provide an empirical application to the Philippines for the period 1985 - 2009.
Subjects: 
economic growth
foster-greer-thorbecke (fgt) measure
inequality
inflation
poverty profile
watts measure
JEL: 
I32
O10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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