Comment on 'Counting the World's Poor' by Angus Deaton
This issue provides a usefully critical
discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for
measuring poverty. The author will not address all the
points raised by Deaton- avoiding those on which the author
thinks there is broad agreement that the World Bank s
current methods can be improved. These include the way that
(invariably troublesome) income surveys are handled, the
scope for better use of subjective-qualitative welfare data,
and the need to better acknowledge the limitations of
welfare metrics based solely on consumption of market goods.
This leaves two main issues that are very important for
global poverty measurements- namely, how currency
conversions are done and whether the poverty measures should
be anchored to the national accounts. On both counts, Deaton
makes recommendations for changing current methods. Before
considering his recommendations, the author will briefly
describe how the World Bank measures poverty.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Ravallion, Martin |
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| Format: | Journal Article
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2001-10
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| Subjects: | ABSOLUTE POVERTY,
AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE,
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE,
CONSUMPTION MEASURE,
COUNTRY LEVEL,
DATA SET,
DECREASING FUNCTION,
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,
DEVELOPING WORLD,
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS,
DEVELOPMENT REPORT,
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH,
DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA,
ECONOMIC GROWTH,
ECONOMIC REVIEW,
EXCHANGE RATES,
GLOBAL POVERTY,
GROWTH PROCESS,
GROWTH RATES,
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS,
HOUSING,
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,
INCOME,
INCOME COMPONENTS,
INEQUALITY,
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS,
LIVING STANDARDS,
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES,
MEAN CONSUMPTION,
MEASUREMENT ERRORS,
MEASURING POVERTY,
MICRO DATA,
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS,
NATIONAL POVERTY,
NATIONAL POVERTY LINES,
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS,
POLICY RESEARCH,
POVERTY COMPARISONS,
POVERTY LINE,
POVERTY LINES,
POVERTY MEASURE,
POVERTY MEASUREMENT,
POVERTY MEASURES,
POVERTY MONITORING,
POVERTY MONITORING EFFORTS,
POVERTY REDUCTION,
POWER PARITY,
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION,
PRO-POOR,
PRO-POOR GROWTH,
REDUCED POVERTY,
REDUCING POVERTY,
REDUCTION IN POVERTY,
REGIONAL COMPOSITION,
RURAL POOR,
TRANSPARENCY, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/17580176/comment-counting-world s-poor-angus-deaton
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17133
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