Chapter 6: Inequality and Poverty
Chapter Outline
- Measuring Inequality
- Patterns of Inequality
- Growth and Inequality
- What Else Might Cause Inequality?
- Why Inequality Matters
- Measuring Poverty
- Poverty Lines
- $1 a Day
- How Much Poverty Is There?
- Dissenting Opinions on the Extent of Absolute Poverty
- Who Are the Poor?
- Are Women Poorer than Men?
- Strategies to Reduce Poverty
- “Growth is Good for the Poor”
- Sometimes Growth May Not Be Enough
- Pro-Poor Growth
- The Washington Consensus and the Poor
- Improving Opportunities for the Poor
- Income Transfers and Safety Nets
- Global Inequality and “the End of Poverty”
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