Dollar a Day Revisited

By M. Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, P. Sangraula. 2008

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries (2013, neutral): “In 1978, the World Bank started to foster this approach, promoting a series of country studies.”
The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) 'Middle Class' (2009, neutral): “However, such a measure need not reflect well the extent to which density has shifted 9 For measuring extreme poverty, Ravallion et al. (2008) recommend a lower line of $1.25 a day.”
Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, positive): “…revisions in international PPP deflators can have strong implications for international income comparisons (Chen et al. 1994; Ackland et al. 2012; Ravallion et al. 2009; Deaton 2010) and cross-country correlations (see Johnson et al. 2013; Ciccone and Jarociński 2010 on the sensitivity of…”
Microfinance and Poverty—A Macro Perspective (2012, neutral): “3 This review draws upon but is not confined to the appraisal of recent evidence in Rosenberg (2010). 4 There is a surfeit of definitions of empowerment.”
Measuring Fuel Poverty: General Considerations and Application to German Household Data (2013, neutral): “5 from the national poverty lines of least developed countries that rely on considerations of basic needs and aspects of relative poverty as well (Ravallion et al., 2009; Ravallion et al., 1991).”
How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty? (2013, neutral): “For further details, see World Bank (2008). 15.”
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2014, neutral): “Ravallion et al. (2009) make the point that national poverty lines rise markedly across developing”
The state of the poor : where are the poor, where is extreme poverty harder to end, and what is the current profile of the world's poor? (2013, positive): “In this note we interchangeably use the terms poor and extremely poor to refer to those living with an income below $1.25 per day in 2005 Purchasing Power Parity dollars as described in Chen and Ravallion (2011) and Ravallion et al. (2009).”
Remittances, growth and poverty: New evidence from Asian countries (2014, neutral): “More specifically, as emphasised in Global Forum on Remittances held by IFAD and the World Bank in Bangkok in May 2013 14 , remittances could 14 See http://www.ifad.org/remittances/events/2013/globalforum/ for details. do more for economic development than official aid and foreign direct investment ”
A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results (2015, neutral): “Information about the ICP urban shares for these three countries come from the Asian Development Bank (2014).41 In contrast to the 2005 ICP, in which price collection was concentrated in urban areas, the 2011 ICP saw reportedly better participation in China, with 24% of the outlets where prices were”