This article critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist
interpretation of global poverty lines is augmented by the idea of normative functionings, the …

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 …

It is becoming well-recognized that relative measures are required for a complete picture of
the extent of global poverty and its evolution. The standard assumption is that the national …

Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the
relative nature of national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income …

National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day to
over $40 (at 2005 purchasing power parity). What accounts for these huge differences, and …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty,
there are a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems:(i) how …

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The
majority of developing countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line …

An empirical measure of the level of poverty in a society is generally thought of as an attempt
to reflect the economic wellbeing of individuals who are at the low end of their society's …

The estimates of the extent, distribution and trend of global income poverty provided in the
World Bank's World Development Reports for 1990 and 2000-01 are neither meaningful nor …

The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from
poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty …