New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales

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...

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Main Authors: Newhouse, David, Suárez Becerra, Pablo, Evans, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Subjects:
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY RATE
CHILD POVERTY
ADULT POVERTY
SCALES
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29138
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spelling okr-10986-291382021-05-25T10:54:42Z New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales Newhouse, David Suárez Becerra, Pablo Evans, Martin POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATE CHILD POVERTY ADULT POVERTY 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 greater than adult poverty rates, for all reasonable two-parameter equivalence scales. 2018-01-10T21:58:23Z 2018-01-10T21:58:23Z 2017-08 Journal Article Economic Letters 0165-1765 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29138 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY RATE
CHILD POVERTY
ADULT POVERTY
SCALES
spellingShingle POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY RATE
CHILD POVERTY
ADULT POVERTY
SCALES
Newhouse, David
Suárez Becerra, Pablo
Evans, Martin
New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
description 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.
format Journal Article
author Newhouse, David
Suárez Becerra, Pablo
Evans, Martin
author_facet Newhouse, David
Suárez Becerra, Pablo
Evans, Martin
author_sort Newhouse, David
title New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
title_short New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
title_full New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
title_fullStr New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
title_full_unstemmed New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales
title_sort new global estimates of child poverty and their sensitivity to alternative equivalence scales
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2018
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29138
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