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Poverty Lines Across the World / 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.
- Achieving Shared Growth.
- Economic growth.
- Household size.
- Income.
- Income distribution.
- Income poverty.
- Inequality.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- National poverty.
- National poverty lines.
- Nutrition.
- Nutritional status.
- Per capita consumption.
- Poor.
- Poverty Assessments.
- Poverty comparisons.
- Poverty line.
- Poverty Lines.
- Poverty measurement.
- Poverty rates.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Targeting.
- Local Subjects:
- Absolute poverty.
- Achieving Shared Growth.
- Economic growth.
- Household size.
- Income.
- Income distribution.
- Income poverty.
- Inequality.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- National poverty.
- National poverty lines.
- Nutrition.
- Nutritional status.
- Per capita consumption.
- Poor.
- Poverty Assessments.
- Poverty comparisons.
- Poverty line.
- Poverty Lines.
- Poverty measurement.
- Poverty rates.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Targeting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (38 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under USD 1 per person per day to over USD 40 (at 2005 purchasing power parity). What accounts for these huge differences, and can they be understood within a common global definition of poverty? For all except the poorest countries, the absolute, nutrition-based, poverty lines found in practice tend to behave more like relative lines, in that they are higher for richer countries. Prevailing methods of setting absolute lines allow ample scope for such relativity, even when nutritional norms are common across countries. Both macro data on poverty lines across the world and micro data on subjective perceptions of poverty are consistent with a weak form of relativity that combines absolute consumption needs with social-inclusion needs that are positive for the poorest but rise with a country's mean consumption. The strong form of relativism favored by some developed countries - whereby the line is set at a fixed proportion of the mean - emerges as the limiting case for very rich countries.
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