Purchasing Power Parities Used in Global Poverty Measurement

Aziz Atamanov, Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner and Espen Prydz

No 5, Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Given substantial differences in price levels across countries, international spatial deflators are needed to compare welfare aggregates to a common international poverty line. This note describes the sources of the purchasing power parities that are used forevery country included in the World Bank's estimates of global poverty, published in PovcalNet. These exchange rates are used to express welfare aggregates in 2011 international dollars.

Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2018-09
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