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Dollar A Day Revisited / Ravallion, Martin
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ravallion, Martin
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Absolute poverty.
- Global poverty.
- International poverty line.
- National poverty.
- National poverty lines.
- Poor.
- Poor countries.
- Poor person.
- Poverty line.
- Poverty measurement.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Local Subjects:
- Absolute poverty.
- Global poverty.
- International poverty line.
- National poverty.
- National poverty lines.
- Poor.
- Poor countries.
- Poor person.
- Poverty line.
- Poverty measurement.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (42 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The paper presents the first major update of the international "USD 1 a day" poverty line, first proposed in 1990 for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new data set of national poverty lines we find that a marked economic gradient only emerges when consumption per person is above about USD 2.00 a day at 2005 purchasing power parity. Below this, the average poverty line is USD 1.25, which we propose as the new international poverty line. Relative poverty appears to matter more to developing countries than has been thought. Our proposed schedule of relative poverty lines is bounded below by USD 1.25, and rises at a gradient of USD 1 in USD 3 when mean consumption is above USD 2.00 a day.
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