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"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 "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

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The rmsm-x+p : a minimal poverty module for the rmsm-x

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Picking the poor : indicators for geographic targeting in Peru

Schady, Norbert Rudiger - 2000

Geographic targeting of social programs to the poor has become increasingly important in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting are large, and differences in outcomes with different targeting indicators are small

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Combining census and survey data to study spatial dimensions of poverty : a case study of Ecuador

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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...

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The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters

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