On some extensions of the concept of growth incidence curves

Abstract

This article proposes a decomposition of what Grimm (2007) called individual growth incidence curve into two components measuring the impact of structural mobility (measured through the traditional growth incidence curve) and of exchange mobility, respectively. It also suggests introducing a growth incidence curve that checks whether pure mobility was pro-poor. An illustration based on Israeli census data for the years 1983 and 1995 seems to confirm the usefulness of the proposed breakdown.

Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Adar Foundation of the Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University.

Notes

¹See Ravallion and Chen (2003) for an introduction to the concepts of pro-poor growth and growth incidence curves.

²These growth rates were computed on the basis of the individual incomes in 1983 and 1995 expressed at constant 1995 prices.