Societal poverty : a relative and relevant measure (English)

Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a share of mean or median income. Despite systematic variation in how countries define poverty, global poverty counts are based on fixed-value lines. To reflect national assessments of poverty in a global headcount...

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Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell;

Prydz,Espen Beer;
Document Date
2017/05/23
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS8073
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2017/05/23
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Disclosed
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Societal poverty : a relative and relevant measure
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national poverty line

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Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell; Prydz,Espen Beer.

Societal poverty : a relative and relevant measure (English). LSMS|Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8073 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/133671495562984832

Societal poverty : a relative and relevant measure (English)

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