As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

around the world. They are the raw material in the debate on whether or not world growth reduces world poverty. This paper … discusses how the poverty estimates are constructed, and asks whether they can bear the burden placed on them. One specific … difficulty is the use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, whose revision induces large changes in poverty estimates …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …