Methoden vergleichen

	Datt-Ravallion Decomposition	Poverty Gap Index
Fachgebiet	Volkswirtschaftslehre	Volkswirtschaftslehre
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1992	1984
Urheber	Gaurav Datt & Martin Ravallion	James Foster, Joel Greer & Erik Thorbecke (FGT alpha = 1)
Typ	Poverty-change decomposition	Money-metric poverty depth measure
Wegweisende Quelle	Datt, G., & Ravallion, M. (1992). Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures: a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s. Journal of Development Economics, 38(2), 275–295.	Foster, J., Greer, J., & Thorbecke, E. (1984). A class of decomposable poverty measures. Econometrica, 52(3), 761–766.
Aliasnamen	Growth-Redistribution Decomposition, Datt-Ravallion Method, Growth and Redistribution Components, Poverty Change Decomposition	Poverty Gap Ratio, Income Gap Measure, Mean Normalized Shortfall, Depth of Poverty
Verwandt	3	3
Zusammenfassung	The Datt-Ravallion decomposition, introduced by Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion in 1992, separates the observed change in a poverty measure between two dates into a growth component — the change attributable to a shift in mean income holding the relative distribution fixed — and a redistribution component — the change attributable to a shift in the Lorenz curve holding mean income fixed. A residual captures the interaction between the two. It became the standard way to ask whether falling poverty was driven by rising average incomes or by changes in inequality, and underlies the empirical literature on pro-poor growth.	The poverty gap index is the member of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke family at alpha = 1 and the standard money-metric measure of the depth of poverty. Where the headcount ratio merely counts who is poor, the poverty gap averages how far the poor fall below the poverty line, expressed as a fraction of that line and spread over the whole population. It can be read as the per-capita resource shortfall — the share of the poverty line, per person, that perfect targeting would need to transfer to eliminate poverty — making it the natural complement to the headcount when judging the cost and intensity of poverty.