The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. These …

This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und … cannot be very certain about levels of absolute poverty in the world and that the current method for generating these …

global poverty measurement framework. Focusing primarily on 16 Sub-Saharan African countries, the analysis reveals that … addressing poverty in both urban and rural areas. This study aims to tackle this issue by comparing subnational poverty … statistics across countries, integrating internationally consistent definitions of urban areas into the World Bank's official …

section 1. Conceptual foundations -- section 2. Measurement -- section 3. Some policy explorations -- section 4. New …