the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …