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Global poverty estimates

present and future

Shatakshee Dhongde
Camelia Minoiu
2010

Abstract

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on keymethodological aspects. These include the choice of welfare indicator, poverty line andpurchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and estimationmethods. We also discuss the importance of the intra-household resource allocation processin determining within-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to different methodologicalapproaches, we show that existing figures vary markedly with the choice of data source formean income or consumption used to scale relative distributions; and with the statisticalmethod used to estimate income distributions from tabulated data

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Conference Paper

Ten Years of War Against Poverty Conference Papers

Conference: Ten Years of War Against Poverty

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