poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether … current reliance on ICP rounds and the resulting PPPs. As a quick fix we propose to fix the international poverty line in …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …