Dollar a Day Revisited

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 mar...

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Main Authors:	Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua, Sangraula, Prem
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	absolute poverty aid donors estimates of poverty extreme poverty global poverty household consumption income international poverty line national poverty national poverty lines poor poor countries poor people poverty assessment poverty assessments poverty line poverty measures poverty reduction poverty reduction strategy poverty reduction strategy papers
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4499

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spelling	okr-10986-44992021-04-23T14:02:18Z Dollar a Day Revisited Ravallion, Martin Chen, Shaohua Sangraula, Prem absolute poverty aid donors estimates of poverty extreme poverty global poverty household consumption income international poverty line national poverty national poverty lines poor poor countries poor people poverty assessment poverty assessments poverty line poverty measures poverty reduction poverty reduction strategy poverty reduction strategy papers 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. 2012-03-30T07:12:38Z 2012-03-30T07:12:38Z 2009-06-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4499 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Turkey
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description	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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author	Ravallion, Martin Chen, Shaohua Sangraula, Prem
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title	Dollar a Day Revisited
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