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 …

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 …

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 article provides welfare-economic definitions of poverty lines and critically assesses the
main methods of setting poverty lines found in practice. These can be interpreted as ways of …

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 …

1. One of the early studies on poverty was done by Rowntree (1901), who defined families
as being in primary poverty if their total earnings were insufficient to obtain the “minimum …

A fundamental point of discussion in poverty research is whether poverty is an absolute or a
relative concept. If poverty is seen to be a situation of absolute deprivation, a poverty line will …

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 …

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 …

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 …