New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
This paper uses micro-data from household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. 19.5% of children are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2% of adults. Poverty rates for children remain above 17%, and are g...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Published: |
Elsevier
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29138 |
| Summary: | This paper uses micro-data from household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. 19.5% of children are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2% of adults. Poverty rates for children remain above 17%, and are greater than adult poverty rates, for all reasonable two-parameter equivalence scales. |
|---|