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Center for Global Development

September 16, 2013

Filling the Gap:

Inequality Indicators for Post-2015

@CGDev

The Median Is the Message:

Median Consumption Expenditure as Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress Nancy Birdsall & Christian Meyer

Center for Global Development

@nancymbirdsall @chrmeyer

AGO ALB ARM AZE BTN BWA CHN CHN-U CHN-R CMR COG CPV DJI DZA EGY FJI GAB GEO GHA IDN-R IDN-U IND-R IND IND-U IRN IRQ JOR KGZ KHM LKA MAR MDA MDV MRT NGA NIC PAK PHL PNG SDN SEN SWZ SYR TGO THA TJK TKM TMP VNM YEM ZMB

1 2 3 4 5 6 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)

A more forward looking measure than the poverty rate* and gap?

Low income Lower middle income Upper middle income GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)

Survey median consumption, daily p.c. (2005 PPP$) $2 a day poverty line

developing country median (estimate)

BGD MEX

* = poverty rate

It matters at what point of the distribution we measure growth: Who benefitted between 1995-2010?

1 2 3 4 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percentile of Consumption Distribution

Percentage change at median: 1.948967695236206

.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Cumulative annual growth (% change) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percentile of Consumption Distribution

Percentage change at median: 1.857921481132507

change of consumption mean change of GNI change at consumption

median

change of consumption mean change of GNI change at consumption

median

South Africa Mexico

percentiles of distribution percentiles of distribution poorest richest poorest richest

% change, annualized % change, annualized