Measuring Global Poverty

Andrea Brandolini () and John Micklewright ()

No 21-33, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: Global poverty is a fundamental indicator in monitoring the world’s social progress. We review the main issues arising in such measurement since its origin in the World Bank’s publications. Comparison with the parallel process of measuring poverty in the European Union provides further insights on the measurement in supranational entities.

Keywords: global poverty; income; consumption; poverty line; household-level comparable data; cosmopolitanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12-01
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