Welfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measures

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries....

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Main Authors: Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375681503578018837/Welfare-consistent-global-poverty-measures
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27977