This paper provides a non-technical account of poverty measurement at the local, national, and global levels. The … poverty measurement … political and scientific bases for measurement are discussed, as are the main strengths and weaknesses of the usual methods for …

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …

around the world. They are the raw material in the debate on whether or not world growth reduces world poverty. This paper … discusses how the poverty estimates are constructed, and asks whether they can bear the burden placed on them. One specific … difficulty is the use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, whose revision induces large changes in poverty estimates …