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doi
10.1596/1813-9450-4921
handle
10986/4111

May Growth Lead to Higher Deprivation Despite Higher Satisfaction?

Flag for IGO World Bank on March 19th 2012
Wodon, Quentin and Yitzhaki, Shlomo
In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction and higher deprivation. This may help explain the discontent with growth despite its benefits. As is well known in the literature, knowledge of the population's mean income and Lorenz curve is all that is needed to analyze a distribution, so that this can also be used to assess the satisfaction and deprivation of each individual. Given the normalization used to derive the satisfaction and deprivation measures, satisfaction and deprivation add up to the mean income for the population as a whole as well as for each individual.

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Related SDGs

SDG 1: No Poverty ...
SDG 1: No Poverty

Target 1.2

Reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
SDG 10: Reduced Inequality ...
SDG 10: Reduced Inequality

Target 10.1

Progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

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