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Dollar a Day Revisited

The paper presents the first major update of the international "$1 a day" poverty line, first proposed in 1990 for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new data set of national poverty li...

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Main Authors:	Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua, Sangraula, Prem
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE AGGREGATE POVERTY AID DONORS BASIC NEEDS BULLETIN CALORIES PER PERSON CALORIES PER PERSON PER DAY CAPITAL CITY CONFLICT CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COUNTRY DATA COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY SPECIFIC DATA QUALITY DENSITY FUNCTION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL MODEL EMPIRICAL RESULTS ERROR TERM EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY FOOD BASKET FOOD BUNDLE FOOD COMPONENTS FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD NEEDS FOOD POVERTY FOOD POVERTY LINE FOOD SECURITY FOOD SHARE FUNCTIONAL FORM GLOBAL MARKETS GLOBAL POVERTY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME ELASTICITY INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME POVERTY INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET LEVELS OF CONSUMPTION LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL MARKETS LOW-INCOME LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY MEAT MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION SHARE POPULATION SIZE POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY GAP POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY PROFILES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAM POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS POVERTY STUDY POVERTY UPDATE PREVAILING NOTIONS PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PROGRESS PUBLIC SECTOR PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REDUCING POVERTY RICH COUNTRIES RISK SHARING RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY LINE RURAL POVERTY LINES SCHOOLING SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION SOCIAL EQUITY SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL SECTORS STANDARD DEVIATION SUBSISTENCE TOTAL POVERTY TOTAL POVERTY LINE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS URBAN POVERTY URBAN POVERTY LINES URBANIZATION VEGETABLES VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9813295/dollar-day-revisited http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6781

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Summary:	The paper presents the first major update of the international "$1 a day" poverty line, first proposed in 1990 for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new data set of national poverty lines we find that a marked economic gradient only emerges 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 we propose as the new international poverty line. Relative poverty appears to matter more to developing countries than has been thought. The authors' proposed schedule of relative poverty lines is bounded below by $1.25, and rises at a gradient of $1 in $3 when mean consumption is above $2.00 a day.