New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales

This paper uses micro-data from household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. 19.5% of children are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2% of adults. Poverty rates for children remain above 17%, and are g...

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Main Authors: Newhouse, David, Suárez Becerra, Pablo, Evans, Martin
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29138