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There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for these new indices correctly point out that command over market goods is not all that matters to peoples' well-being, and that other factors need to be considered when quantifying...
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concerns that have received insufficient attention, including the choice of covariates, survey design issues, measurement …
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surveys, 99 percent of the variance in the observed changes in PPPs is explicable. Using a nested test, the World Bank s …
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National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day to over $40 (at 2005 purchasing … across the world and micro data on subjective perceptions of poverty are consistent with a weak form of relativity that …
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