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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …
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regression ; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures ; NHANES …
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Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …
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), 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 …
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are less healthy in terms of excess accumulation of fat...
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the best existing methods to obtain poverty estimates at a single snapshot in time? and over time? and what are the best … available methods to study poverty dynamics? A variety of different techniques have been developed to tackle these questions …, but unfortunately, they are presented in different forms and lack unified terminology. We offer a review of poverty …
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Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012824
), 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021955
growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …
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international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … of global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative …
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