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 …

The global poverty count uses a common global poverty line, often referred to as the dollar-a-day line, currently $1 … poor. We use household surveys from 62 developing countries to calculate global poverty-weighted PPPs and to calculate … global poverty lines and new global poverty counts. …

Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no …. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area "poverty maps" based on census data enriched by relationships estimated … precise estimates of poverty and inequality for areas as small as 20,000 households. In this paper we argue that to usefully …