"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development … Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more … representative data set of national poverty lines, a marked economic gradient emerges only when consumption per person is above about …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

The paper presents the first major update of the international "$1 a day" poverty line, first proposed in 1990 for … measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new data set of national poverty lines we … power parity. Below this, the average poverty line is $1.25, which we propose as the new international poverty line …

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 …

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 …