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. Welfare-consistent measures are shown to be bounded below by a fixed absolute line and above by weakly-relative lines derived from a theoretical model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is making more progress against poverty than the developed world.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017-08
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| Subjects: | POVERTY LINE, RELATIVE INCOME, INEQUALITY, GLOBAL POVERTY, POVERTY REDUCTION, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375681503578018837/Welfare-consistent-global-poverty-measures https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27977 |
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