Prices Used in Global Poverty Measurement

João Pedro Azevedo (), Paul Corral Rodas, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Daniel Mahler, Jose Montes, Minh Nguyen and Espen Prydz

No 3, Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series from The World Bank

Abstract: To compare welfare aggregates over time and across space, the World Bank's global poverty estimates incorporate temporal and spatial price adjustments, as well as currency changes. This short note summarizes these adjustments in a simple framework and provides the basis for more detailed papers documenting each of the components.

Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2018-09
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