Using PPPs in Calculation of Global and Regional Poverty Rates

Ranjan Ray

Chapter Chapter 9 in Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare, 2018, pp 253-287 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the central applications of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) concept is in the calculation of global and regional poverty ratesGlobal and Regional Poverty rates . PPPs play a crucial role in global poverty enumeration since they are used both in the construction of the international poverty line (IPL)International Poverty Line (IPL) from the poverty lines of the 15 poorest countries (as is the current practice) and in the application of the IPL to estimate the poverty numbers and poverty rates in each country.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1930-3_9

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