Poverty Where People Live: What do National Poverty Lines Tell us about Global Poverty?

Debate about national and international poverty measurement continued to evolve (see for example, Abu-Ismail et al., 2012). The basic question of how many poor people there are in the world generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally re...

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Autores: Gentilini, Ugo, Sumner, Andy
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15567
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15567
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:poverty
national poverty lines
global poverty
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Sumario:Debate about national and international poverty measurement continued to evolve (see for example, Abu-Ismail et al., 2012). The basic question of how many poor people there are in the world generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally relevant question could be how many poor people there are in the world, based on how poverty is defined where those people live. In short, rather than a comparison based on monetary values, the latter question is germane to estimates based on a concept—‘poverty’—as defined by countries’ specific circumstances and institutions. (…)