the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are … of poverty outcomes over time. It presents the various methods under a common framework, with pedagogical discussion on …

Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of … national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a … share of mean or median income. Despite systematic variation in how countries define poverty, global poverty counts are …

World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90/day, at 2011 purchasing power parity, is based on a collection of … national poverty lines, which were originally used to set the international poverty line of $1.25/day at 2005 purchasing power … parity. This paper proposes an approach for estimating a more recent, complete, and comparable collection of national poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

Poverty estimates based on enumeration from a single point in time form the cornerstone for much of the literature on … poverty. Households are typically interviewed once about their consumption or income, and their wellbeing is assessed from … their responses. Global estimates of poverty that aggregate poverty counts from all countries implicitly assume that the …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …