A Note on the Contribution of Sectoral Natural Population Growth to the Aggregate Poverty Change: Evidence from Bangladesh, Mongolia and Nicaragua

PMMA Working Paper No. 2007-14

10 Pages Posted: 7 May 2007

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Rim Chatti

ESSEC Business School - Economics Department

AbdelRahmen El Lahga

Institut Supérieur de Gestion (Tunisia)

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

This note extends the Ravallion and Huppi (1991) aggregate poverty change decomposition, to account for the distinct contribution of migration and differential natural population growth between sectors to the aggregate poverty change. We apply our decomposition to three LDCs. We find that accounting for sectoral difference in natural population growth has a considerable impact on national poverty change.

Keywords: Poverty change, migration, population growth

JEL Classification: I32, R23

Suggested Citation

Chatti, Rim and El Lahga, AbdelRahmen, A Note on the Contribution of Sectoral Natural Population Growth to the Aggregate Poverty Change: Evidence from Bangladesh, Mongolia and Nicaragua (2007). PMMA Working Paper No. 2007-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=984331 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.984331

Rim Chatti (Contact Author)

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AbdelRahmen El Lahga

Institut Supérieur de Gestion (Tunisia) ( email )

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Bardo, Tunis 2000
Tunisia

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