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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763
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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012 : Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2020
Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world?s population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855964
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Global Poverty Goals and Prices : How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Jolliffe, Dean - 2020
previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856238
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2017
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971183
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Depreciations Without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2017
This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971261
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The Real Exchange Rate and Export Growth : Are Services Different?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2017
This paper considers the determinants of exports of modern services and traditional services. It considers the growth of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the determinants of export growth rates and export surges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973942
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Assessing Real Exchange Rate Misalignments
Kubota, Megumi - 2017
There is a renewed debate on the role of exchange rate policies as an industrial policy tool in both academic and policy circles. Policy practitioners usually examine real exchange rate misalignments to monitor the behavior of this key relative price and, if possible, exploit distortions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975532
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Price Levels and Economic Growth : Making Sense of the PPP Changes between ICP Rounds
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
surveys, 99 percent of the variance in the observed changes in PPPs is explicable. Using a nested test, the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976671
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Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations : A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2016
From its inception, the Penn World Tables (PWT), building on the International Comparisons Program (ICP)of the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747809
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The Structural Determinants of External Vulnerability
Loayza, Norman - 2016
The authors examine empirically how domestic structural characteristics related to openness and product- and factor-market flexibility influence the impact that terms-of-trade shocks can have on aggregate output. For this purpose, they apply an econometric methodology based on semi-structural...
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