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 … the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the …

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 …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … 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 … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

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 …