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Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Societal Poverty: A Relative and Relevant Measure

Bidragsytere:
  • Dean Jolliffe og
  • Espen Beer Prydz

Tidsskrift

World Bank Economic Review
ISSN 0258-6770
e-ISSN 1564-698X
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Publisert online: 2019
Trykket: 2021
Volum: 35
Hefte: 1
Sider: 180 - 206

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Tittel

Societal Poverty: A Relative and Relevant Measure

Sammendrag

Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a share of mean or median income. Despite systematic variation in how countries define poverty, global poverty counts are based on fixed-value lines. To reflect national assessments of poverty in a global headcount of poverty, this paper proposes a societal poverty line. The proposed societal poverty line is derived from 699 harmonized national poverty lines, has an intercept of $1 per day and a relative gradient of 50 percent of median national income or consumption. The societal poverty line is more closely aligned with national definitions of poverty than other proposed relative lines. By this relative measure, societal poverty has fallen steadily since 1990, but at a much slower pace than absolute extreme poverty.

Bidragsytere

Dean Jolliffe

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter

Espen Beer Prydz

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved The World Bank
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