The devil in the details: The core disadvantage of the International Poverty Line

Michail Moatsos

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Abstract: Our appreciation of global poverty almost exclusively relies on the official statistics published by the World Bank. Yet, these official global poverty estimates, based on the standard dollar-a-day approach, fall short in their prime objective of observing a constant standard of living across countries and over time. This paper discusses in brief the core methodological problem of the method, that is the idea that a single poverty line can be used for all country and all years consistently.

Keywords: Global Poverty; Absolute Poverty; Poverty Measurement; Dollar-A-Day; International Poverty Line; WBPL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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