A New Profile of the Global Poor

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data from 89 developing countries. The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poo...

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Main Authors: Castañeda, Andrés, Doan, Dung, Newhouse, David, Nguyen, Minh Cong, Uematsu, Hiroki, Azevedo, João Pedro
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29225