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Deaton, Angus - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 1

Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It opens with a critical review of the different procedures...

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Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly

Deaton, Angus; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or family data on income or expenditure. The transition from one to the other requires assumptions about intrahousehold allocation, about differences in needs across different people, and about the extent of...

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Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Global Poor

Deaton, Angus; Dupriez, Olivier - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 137-66

The global poverty count uses a common global poverty line, often referred to as the dollar-a-day line, currently $1.25 at 2005 international prices, whose construction and application depends on purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates for consumption. The price indexes that underlie the...

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Price Indexes, Inequality, and the Measurement of World Poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line...

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Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)

Deaton, Angus - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2005) 1, pp. 1-19

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there are better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than...

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The great escape : Angus Deaton

Lipton, Michael - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 52 (2016) 1, pp. 1-4

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The Great Escape : Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

Deaton, Angus - 2013

. LIFE AND DEATH -- 2. From Prehistory to 1945 -- 3. Escaping Death in the Tropics -- 4. Health in the Modern World -- PART … world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and … own Great Escape. Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is …

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Suicide, age, and wellbeing : an empirical investigation

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - 2015

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On tyrannical experts and expert tyrants

Deaton, Angus - In: The review of Austrian economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 407-412

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Health, inequality, and economic development

Deaton, Angus - 2001

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