Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton
This issue provides a usefully critical discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for measuring poverty. The author will not address all the points raised by Deaton- avoiding those on which the author thinks there is broad agreement that the World Bank s current methods can be improved. These include the way that (invariably troublesome) income surveys are handled, the scope for better use of subjective-qualitative welfare data, and the need to better acknowledge the limitations of welfare metrics based solely on consumption of market goods. This leaves two main issues that are very important for global poverty measurements- namely, how currency conversions are done and whether the poverty measures should be anchored to the national accounts. On both counts, Deaton makes recommendations for changing current methods. Before considering his recommendations, the author will briefly describe how the World Bank measures poverty.
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dig-okr-10986171332024-08-08T14:39:35Z Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY This issue provides a usefully critical discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for measuring poverty. The author will not address all the points raised by Deaton- avoiding those on which the author thinks there is broad agreement that the World Bank s current methods can be improved. These include the way that (invariably troublesome) income surveys are handled, the scope for better use of subjective-qualitative welfare data, and the need to better acknowledge the limitations of welfare metrics based solely on consumption of market goods. This leaves two main issues that are very important for global poverty measurements- namely, how currency conversions are done and whether the poverty measures should be anchored to the national accounts. On both counts, Deaton makes recommendations for changing current methods. Before considering his recommendations, the author will briefly describe how the World Bank measures poverty. 2014-02-20T23:23:03Z 2014-02-20T23:23:03Z 2001-10 Journal Article Article de journal Artículo de revista http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/17580176/comment-counting-world s-poor-angus-deaton World Bank Research Observer https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17133 English en_US World Bank Research Observer CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain Washington, DC: World Bank |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY Ravallion, Martin Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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This issue provides a usefully critical
discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for
measuring poverty. The author will not address all the
points raised by Deaton- avoiding those on which the author
thinks there is broad agreement that the World Bank s
current methods can be improved. These include the way that
(invariably troublesome) income surveys are handled, the
scope for better use of subjective-qualitative welfare data,
and the need to better acknowledge the limitations of
welfare metrics based solely on consumption of market goods.
This leaves two main issues that are very important for
global poverty measurements- namely, how currency
conversions are done and whether the poverty measures should
be anchored to the national accounts. On both counts, Deaton
makes recommendations for changing current methods. Before
considering his recommendations, the author will briefly
describe how the World Bank measures poverty. |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION MEASURE COUNTRY LEVEL DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REVIEW EXCHANGE RATES GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INEQUALITY INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LIVING STANDARDS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL COMPOSITION RURAL POOR TRANSPARENCY |
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Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton |
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