Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh Baah, Samuel Kofi - 2022
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. The paper … income not by household size but by the square root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …