Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem - In: World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 2, pp. 163-184
The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more representative data set of national poverty lines, a...