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Endnotes
1
See Ravallion (2004) and Kimenyi (2006) on pro-poor growth and Datt and Ravallion (1992) and
Kakwani (1997a,b) on growth/inequality decompositions.
2
See Alkire and Foster (2011), Bourguignon and Chakravarty (2003), Tsui (2002), and Duclos and
others (2006).
3
These are discrete groupings, though the continuity of the income distribution allows for a continuous
representation, the growth incidence curve (Ravallion and Chen, 2003).
4
Such an “index of car health” would almost certainly not be an average of all these variables, but a
maximin function: you should not drive if the worst of the indicators is below its acceptable level.
5
One exception is GDP, which is an index of disparate quantities of apples, oranges, cars, etc produced
and with weights equal to the prices of those items. For competitive economies, these price
weights have a clear economic and welfare justification.
6
The normalization procedure used is the min–max formula applied to all observed values of each
component during the period 2000–10. This procedure adjusts the normalized component to take
values between 0 and 100 over the indicated period.
7
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