Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth-both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most notably India)-provides fuel for the argument that...

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Main Author: Deaton, Angus
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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
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spelling okr-10986-171252021-04-23T14:03:29Z Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions Deaton, Angus AGRICULTURAL LABORERS AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES AVERAGE INCOMES CALORIES PER PERSON CALORIES PER PERSON PER DAY CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION POVERTY CURRENT POVERTY DECLINE IN POVERTY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT REPORT DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS ELIMINATION OF POVERTY ESTIMATES OF POVERTY EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES FOOD AVAILABILITY FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURE FOOD EXPENDITURES FOOD SHARE FOOD STAPLES GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT RATIO HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVELS INCOME POVERTY INCREASING INEQUALITY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LIVING STANDARDS LONG RUN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MARGINAL PROPENSITY MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA INCOME POINT ESTIMATE POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PROMOTING GROWTH PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES RAPID GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCTION OF POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES RELATIVE PRICES RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL PEOPLE RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY LINES RURAL POVERTY RATES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SUBSISTENCE TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN POVERTY URBAN WORKERS As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth-both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most notably India)-provides fuel for the argument that economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing them in ways that have little or nothing to do with the actual experience of the poor. At the domestic level, the problems in measuring poverty are important not only for the world count but also for tracking income poverty within individual countries. Yet, in many countries, there are large and growing discrepancies between the survey data-the source of poverty counts-and the national accounts-the source of the measure of economic growth. Thus economic growth, as measured, has at best a weak relationship with poverty, as measured. 2014-02-20T22:30:44Z 2014-02-20T22:30:44Z 2001-10 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/17591986/counting-worlds-poor-problems-possible-solutions World Bank Research Observer http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17125 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES
AVERAGE INCOMES
CALORIES PER PERSON
CALORIES PER PERSON PER DAY
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION POVERTY
CURRENT POVERTY
DECLINE IN POVERTY
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMICS
ELIMINATION OF POVERTY
ESTIMATES OF POVERTY
EXCHANGE RATE
EXCHANGE RATES
FOOD AVAILABILITY
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD EXPENDITURE
FOOD EXPENDITURES
FOOD SHARE
FOOD STAPLES
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEADCOUNT RATIO
HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSING
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
INCIDENCE ANALYSIS
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME GROWTH
INCOME LEVELS
INCOME POVERTY
INCREASING INEQUALITY
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
LIVING STANDARDS
LONG RUN
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MARGINAL PROPENSITY
MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY
MEASURING POVERTY
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATIONAL POVERTY
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PER CAPITA INCOME
POINT ESTIMATE
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL SUPPORT
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POORER HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY PROFILE
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
PROMOTING GROWTH
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
RAPID GROWTH
REDUCED POVERTY
REDUCTION OF POVERTY
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
RELATIVE PRICES
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL PEOPLE
RURAL POVERTY
RURAL POVERTY LINES
RURAL POVERTY RATES
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
SUBSISTENCE
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBAN POVERTY
URBAN WORKERS
spellingShingle AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES
AVERAGE INCOMES
CALORIES PER PERSON
CALORIES PER PERSON PER DAY
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION POVERTY
CURRENT POVERTY
DECLINE IN POVERTY
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMICS
ELIMINATION OF POVERTY
ESTIMATES OF POVERTY
EXCHANGE RATE
EXCHANGE RATES
FOOD AVAILABILITY
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD EXPENDITURE
FOOD EXPENDITURES
FOOD SHARE
FOOD STAPLES
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEADCOUNT RATIO
HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSING
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
INCIDENCE ANALYSIS
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME GROWTH
INCOME LEVELS
INCOME POVERTY
INCREASING INEQUALITY
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
LIVING STANDARDS
LONG RUN
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MARGINAL PROPENSITY
MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY
MEASURING POVERTY
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATIONAL POVERTY
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PER CAPITA INCOME
POINT ESTIMATE
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL SUPPORT
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POORER HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY PROFILE
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
PROMOTING GROWTH
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
RAPID GROWTH
REDUCED POVERTY
REDUCTION OF POVERTY
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
RELATIVE PRICES
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL PEOPLE
RURAL POVERTY
RURAL POVERTY LINES
RURAL POVERTY RATES
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
SUBSISTENCE
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URBAN POVERTY
URBAN WORKERS
Deaton, Angus
Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
description As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth-both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most notably India)-provides fuel for the argument that economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing them in ways that have little or nothing to do with the actual experience of the poor. At the domestic level, the problems in measuring poverty are important not only for the world count but also for tracking income poverty within individual countries. Yet, in many countries, there are large and growing discrepancies between the survey data-the source of poverty counts-and the national accounts-the source of the measure of economic growth. Thus economic growth, as measured, has at best a weak relationship with poverty, as measured.
format Journal Article
author Deaton, Angus
author_facet Deaton, Angus
author_sort Deaton, Angus
title Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
title_short Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
title_full Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
title_fullStr Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
title_full_unstemmed Counting the World's Poor : Problems and Possible Solutions
title_sort counting the world's poor : problems and possible solutions
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/17591986/counting-worlds-poor-problems-possible-solutions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17125
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