poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …

absolute levels of living. It is argued that a new hybrid measure is called for, combining absolute and weakly … developing world. While fewer people are poor by the global absolute standard, more are poor by the country-specific relative … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …

absolute levels of living. It is argued that a new hybrid measure is called for, combining absolute and weakly relative … developing world. While fewer people are poor by the global absolute standard, more are poor by the country-specific relative … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

well be wildly wrong. This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a …