Abstract

We investigate the evolution of the income share of the poorest 20 per cent of the population, and of the average income level of this group, in a cross-country sample using data from 1965 to 1990. The change in the income share of the poor is negatively correlated with its 1965 level and with 1965 per capita GDP, implying the greatest improvements in poor countries with the most unequal initial income distribution, but is not correlated with economic growth. The average incomes of the poor grow faster in countries with higher growth rates. Nous analysons l'evolution de la part de revenu des 20% les plus pauvres de la population, et du niveau de revenu moyen de ce groupe, a partir d'un echantillon de plusieurs pays entre 1965 et 1990. Les changements de part du revenu de ces pauvres sont correles negativement avec leur niveau de 1965 et avec le PIB par tete de 1965, ce qui implique que les plus grands progres ont ete faits par les pays pauvres ayant le niveau initial de repartition des revenus le plus ine...

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