May Growth Lead to Higher Deprivation Despite Higher Satisfaction?

Wodon, Quentin ; Yitzhaki, Shlomo

关键词: ABSOLUTE AMOUNT;    AMOUNT OF INCOME;    COMMODITIES;    COMMODITY;    CONSUMER;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-4921
RP-ID  :  WPS4921

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In a relative deprivation framework,unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with bothhigher satisfaction and higher deprivation.This may helpexplain the discontent with growth despite its benefits.Asis well known in the literature, knowledge of thepopulation's mean income and Lorenz curve is all thatis needed to analyze a distribution, so that this can alsobe used to assess the satisfaction and deprivation of eachindividual.Given the normalization used to derive thesatisfaction and deprivation measures, satisfaction anddeprivation add up to the mean income for the population asa whole as well as for each individual.