Publication: Dollar a Day Revisited
Date
2009-06-30
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1564-698X
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2009-06-30
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The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more representative data set of national poverty lines, a marked economic gradient emerges only when consumption per person is above about $2.00 a day at 2005 purchasing power parity. Below this, the average poverty line is $1.25, which is proposed as the new international poverty line. The article tests the robustness of this line to alternative estimation methods and explains how it differs from the old $1 a day line.
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“Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem. 2009. Dollar a Day Revisited. World Bank Economic Review. © World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4499 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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