We critically review conceptual and empirical issues surrounding the derivation of the
international poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of …

Abstract The World Bank's international poverty line (IPL) of 1.90/dayat2011PPPsisbasedonacollectionofnati…
.(WorldBankEcon.Rev.23(2),163–184,2009),originallyusedtosettheIPLof 1.25/day at 2005 …

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the
role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison …

This paper aims to present a new global poverty line based on the 2011 Purchasing Power
Parity (PPP). To calculate a new global poverty threshold based on 2011 PPP, this paper …

The basic question about 'how many poor people are there in the world?'generally assumes
that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally …

We present theory and evidence to suggest that, in the context of analyzing global poverty,
the EKS approach to estimating purchasing power parities yields more appropriate …

Abstract The World Bank's global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems
arising from a single source, the lack of a standard for identifying who is poor and who is not …

A t the national level, poverty reduction is a major policy goal around the world. At the
international level, halving the world poverty rate by 2015 is arguably the most important of …

We present theory and evidence to suggest that, in the context of analysing global poverty,
the EKS approach to estimating purchasing power parities yields more appropriate …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of
relativeincome comparisons but also acknowledge a deep identification problem when the …