International Comparisons of Income Poverty and Extreme Income Poverty

McKinley Blackburn ()

No 97, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Uses LIS data to study the sensitivity of cross-national income poverty comparisons to the method in which poverty is measured. Examined are the differences between using absolute and relative poverty comparisons as well as the consequence of lowering the real value of the poverty line to examine extreme poverty.

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Date: 1993-06
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Published in American Economic Review 84, no. 2, (May 1994): 371(4); Comparing Poverty: The United States and Other Industrialized Nations, AEI Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality, American Enterprise Institute, 1997.

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