Table 1 decomposes the change in headcount poverty in terms of the effect of growth and of changes in inequality. In Mauritius, the headcount movement can be explained in large part by a growth effect. 1.9 percentage point of the 1.7 percentage point fall from 5.8% to 4.1% can indeed be attributed to a growth effect. The bottom half of Mauritius' population lost around 1% of total national consumption to the top half. This slight worsening of inequality was not, however, substantially detrimental to the effect of growth on poverty reduction. The fall in poverty between 2001 and 2006 would have been from 5.8% to 3.9% if inequality had remained unchanged. Hence, Mauritius's development in the early 2000s did roughly succeed in reducing poverty through growth and at a relatively modest poverty cost through an increase in inequality. In South Africa, the total change in poverty between 1995 and 2005 is neither numerically nor statistically significant. The effects of growth and redistribution on poverty have, however, been important (see Table 1).