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World Bank Revisits the Meaning of "Absolute" Poverty

July 22, 2008
This is a joint posting with Martina Tonizzo The World Bank has announced a new poverty line on the basis of revised estimates of Purchasing Price Parity (PPP) price levels around the world. In the working paper that explains the basis for the new line, poverty measurement guru Martin Ravallion and ...