New Estimates of Extreme Poverty for Children
This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of childr...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26832168/new-estimates-extreme-poverty-children http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25162 |
| Summary: | This paper uses household surveys from
89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among
children in the developing world. The estimates are based on
the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank
poverty estimates. Of children under age 18 years, 19.5
percent are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as
opposed to 9.2 percent of adults ages 18 and above. Poverty
rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly
higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and steadily decline for
successively older age groups. The analysis also examines
the sensitivity of age-based poverty estimates to the use of
alternative household equivalence scales when adjusting the
international poverty line accordingly. Child poverty rates
remain above 17 percent, and are greater than adult poverty
rates, for all reasonable two-parameter equivalence scales. |
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