Publication: New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
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2017-08
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2018-01-10
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This paper uses micro-data from household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. 19.5% of children are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2% of adults. Poverty rates for children remain above 17%, and are greater than adult poverty rates, for all reasonable two-parameter equivalence scales.
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