world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …