A New Profile of the Global Poor

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.002

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A New Profile of the Global Poor

dc.contributor.author	Castañeda, Andrés
dc.contributor.author	Doan, Dung
dc.contributor.author	Newhouse, David
dc.contributor.author	Nguyen, Minh Cong
dc.contributor.author	Uematsu, Hiroki
dc.contributor.author	Azevedo, João Pedro
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-23T20:16:31Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-23T20:16:31Z
dc.date.issued	2018-01
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme poor live in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of gender inequality in poor children’s educational attainment. A sizable share of the extreme and moderate poor, 40 and 50%, respectively, have completed primary school. Compared with the extreme poor, the moderate poor are significantly more likely to have completed primary school and are less likely to work in agriculture. After conditioning on other individual and household characteristics, having fewer than three children, having greater educational attainment, and living in an urban area are strongly and positively associated with welfare. The results reinforce the central importance of households in rural areas and those containing large numbers of children in efforts to reduce extreme poverty, and are consistent with increased educational attainment and urbanization hastening poverty reduction.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Development
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/29225
dc.identifier.issn	0305-750X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29225
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASUREMENT
dc.subject	LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	EXTREME POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	DEMOGRAPHICS
dc.subject	GLOBAL MICRO DATABASE
dc.title	A New Profile of the Global Poor	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17302735 Journal website (version of record)	en
okr.crossref.title	A New Profile of the Global Poor
okr.date.disclosure	2019-10-05
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.002
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/29225
okr.identifier.report	123214
okr.journal.nbpages	205-67
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.unit	World Bank Data for Goals Group
okr.volume	101
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