World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90/day, at 2011 purchasing power parity, is based on a collection of … national poverty lines, which were originally used to set the international poverty line of $1.25/day at 2005 purchasing power … parity. This paper proposes an approach for estimating a more recent, complete, and comparable collection of national poverty …

World Bank's international poverty line of USD1.90/day, at 2011 purchasing power parity, is based on a collection of … national poverty lines, which were originally used to set the international poverty line of USD1.25/day at 2005 purchasing … poverty thresholds from reported national poverty rates. The paper presents a set of international poverty lines based on this …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and …