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Dollar a Day Revisited
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The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more representative data set of national poverty lines, a marked economic gradient emerges only when consumption per person is above about $2.00 a day at 2005 purchasing power parity. Below this, the average poverty line is $1.25, which is proposed as the new international poverty line. The article tests the robustness of this line to alternative estimation methods and explains how it differs from the old $1 a day line.
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- Authors
- Ravallion, M., Chen, S., & Sangraula, P.
- Venue
- The World Bank Economic Review
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 163-184
- ISSN
- 0258-6770 (ISSN-L)
- 1564-698X
- OpenAlex
- W2149534432
- Cited by
- 456
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 86.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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