poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and … the close linkage between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that this finding is driven by a specification that …

This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 …. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

income poverty line (“dollar-a-day”), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … situation. We consider various ways of creating an Asia-specific poverty line, including an Asia-specific international income … poverty line (using purchasing-power parity [PPP] adjusted dollars) that is derived from Asian national poverty lines. We …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education … as well as family planning services, and government political leadership to promote smaller families. -- poverty …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

measure and the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index. For this purpose, we use a measure of redundancy in the … identification of the poor between the two poverty measures (R0). In Chile, over the past 25 years, R0 has declined at a rate of 1 … poverty index, we find that the divergence in the identification of the poor can be explained by education improvements …