Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Global Poor
The global poverty count uses a common global poverty line, often referred to as the dollar-a-day line, currently $1.25 at 2005 international prices, whose construction and application depends on purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates for consumption. The price indexes that underlie the PPPs used for this purpose are constructed for purposes of national income accounting, using weights that represent patterns of aggregate consumption, not the consumption patterns of the global poor. We use household surveys from 62 developing countries to calculate global poverty-weighted PPPs and to calculate global poverty lines and new global poverty counts.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | EN |
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2011-04
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| Subjects: | Index Numbers and Aggregation, Leading Indicators C430, Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Wealth E210, Foreign Exchange F310, Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320, Economic Development: Human Resources, Human Development, Income Distribution, Migration O150, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5604 |
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