ABSTRACT
Conventional analyses of the relationship between growth and poverty refer to the effect of growth and the business cycle on absolute poverty as opposed to relative poverty, which infers the notion of inequality. The poverty indicator commonly used in France is the monetary poverty rate. It depends on the distribution of income and on the choice of the poverty line. The statistical system in France has carried out, only for a few years, annual surveys on households' income and living conditions, which allow a recent follow-up of poverty. Poverty indicator gives information only on the proportion of poor households. To complete the analysis of poverty based on monetary indicators, the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) calculates some indicators of living conditions. These indicators, at least some of them, seem to be linked with economic growth during the period 1997-2001.
