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Welfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measures

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dc.contributor.authorRavallion, Martin
dc.contributor.authorChen, Shaohua
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-24T22:12:09Z
dc.date.available2017-08-24T22:12:09Z
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.description.abstractThe paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare-consistent measures are shown to be bounded below by a fixed absolute line and above by weakly-relative lines derived from a theoretical model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is making more progress against poverty than the developed world.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375681503578018837/Welfare-consistent-global-poverty-measures
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8170
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/27977
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8170
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectRELATIVE INCOME
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectGLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.titleWelfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measuresen
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okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.unitPoverty and Inequality Team, Development Research Group
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