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estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is …Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we … bias and the bias in consumer price index (CPI) numbers. The PPP bias and subsequent corrected incomes are measured by …
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estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is …Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we … bias and the bias in consumer price index (CPI) numbers. The PPP bias and subsequent corrected incomes are measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274994
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Price-adjusted data on national incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. By studying micro … data, this paper finds that the bias is systematic: the poorer a country is, the more its income tends to be overestimated …. Consequently, international income inequalities are underestimated. The bias in the macro price variables (PPPs), is caused by …
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Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …
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), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices. Widespread criticism of these indices led to the adoption of a new official methodology in 2011 based on unit values from consumption survey data. We propose an alternative...
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices. Widespread criticism of these indices led to the adoption of a new official methodology in 2011 based on unit values from consumption survey data. We propose an alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086396
Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012824
), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world.This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021955