Search Results - subject:"INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE"

The devil in the details: The core disadvantage of the International Poverty Line

Moatsos, Michail - 2020

Our appreciation of global poverty almost exclusively relies on the official statistics published by the World Bank. Yet, these official global poverty estimates, based on the standard dollar-a-day approach, fall short in their prime objective of observing a constant standard of living across...

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Can the World Bank's international poverty line reflect extreme poverty?

Dotter, Caroline - 2017

The World Bank's international poverty line has been a success in drawing the attention of policymakers and media to …, pointing out the weak database for the estimation of the international poverty line. The author also shows how poverty outcomes … international poverty line can therefore not fulfil its own claim of being representative of the poverty lines of poor countries …

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Can the World Bank's international poverty line reflect extreme poverty?

Dotter, Caroline - 2017

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$1.90 per day: What does it say?

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Lahoti, Rahul - 2015

poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global … standard for identifying who is poor and who is not that is consistent and meaningful. The new choice of an international …

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$1.90 per day : what does it say?

Reddy, Sanjay; Lahoti, Rahul - 2015

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A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics ; Regional and Individual Unemployment Persistence, Cash Transfer Program and International Poverty Line

Pasaribu, Syamsul Hidayat - 2014

Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst vier Aufsätze, von denen die ersten beiden die regionale und individuelle Persistenz von Arbeitslosigkeit analysieren. Der dritte Aufsatz erforscht das passende Design für die Höhe von finanziellen Leistungen im Rahmen von Cash-Transfer-Programmen und der...

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A contribution to the empirics of labour and development economics : regional and individual unemployment persistence, cash transfer program and international poverty line

Pasaribu, Syamsul Hidayat - 2014

fourth essay presents an alternative international poverty line compared to the official line of the World Bank. The first …

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A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India

Ravallion, Martin - In: World Bank Research Observer 26 (2011) 1, pp. 71-104

Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth; at the outset of the reform process there were many...

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Dollar a Day Revisited

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 2, pp. 163-184

international poverty line. The article tests the robustness of this line to alternative estimation methods and explains how it …

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How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - In: World Bank Research Observer 19 (2004) 2, pp. 141-170

A new assessment is made of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001--almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though...

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