More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World / Shaohua Chen

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2012Description: Online-Ressource (42 p)Additional physical formats: Shaohua Chen: More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6114Online resources: Summary: Relative deprivation, shame and social exclusion can matter to the welfare of people everywhere. The authors argue that such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household surveys spanning 125 countries over 1981-2008. The absolute line isPPN: PPN: 834974940Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBL
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