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
Subjects:	GLOBAL POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY LINE EXTREME POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION DEMOGRAPHICS GLOBAL MICRO DATABASE
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29225

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spelling	okr-10986-292252021-05-25T10:54:43Z A New Profile of the Global Poor Castañeda, Andrés Doan, Dung Newhouse, David Nguyen, Minh Cong Uematsu, Hiroki Azevedo, João Pedro GLOBAL POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY LINE EXTREME POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION DEMOGRAPHICS GLOBAL MICRO DATABASE 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 poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme poor live in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of gender inequality in poor children’s educational attainment. A sizable share of the extreme and moderate poor, 40 and 50%, respectively, have completed primary school. Compared with the extreme poor, the moderate poor are significantly more likely to have completed primary school and are less likely to work in agriculture. After conditioning on other individual and household characteristics, having fewer than three children, having greater educational attainment, and living in an urban area are strongly and positively associated with welfare. The results reinforce the central importance of households in rural areas and those containing large numbers of children in efforts to reduce extreme poverty, and are consistent with increased educational attainment and urbanization hastening poverty reduction. 2018-01-23T20:16:31Z 2018-01-23T20:16:31Z 2018-01 Journal Article World Development 0305-750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29225 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	GLOBAL POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY LINE EXTREME POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION DEMOGRAPHICS GLOBAL MICRO DATABASE
spellingShingle	GLOBAL POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY LINE EXTREME POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION DEMOGRAPHICS GLOBAL MICRO DATABASE Castañeda, Andrés Doan, Dung Newhouse, David Nguyen, Minh Cong Uematsu, Hiroki Azevedo, João Pedro A New Profile of the Global Poor
description	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 poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme poor live in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of gender inequality in poor children’s educational attainment. A sizable share of the extreme and moderate poor, 40 and 50%, respectively, have completed primary school. Compared with the extreme poor, the moderate poor are significantly more likely to have completed primary school and are less likely to work in agriculture. After conditioning on other individual and household characteristics, having fewer than three children, having greater educational attainment, and living in an urban area are strongly and positively associated with welfare. The results reinforce the central importance of households in rural areas and those containing large numbers of children in efforts to reduce extreme poverty, and are consistent with increased educational attainment and urbanization hastening poverty reduction.
format	Journal Article
author	Castañeda, Andrés Doan, Dung Newhouse, David Nguyen, Minh Cong Uematsu, Hiroki Azevedo, João Pedro
author_facet	Castañeda, Andrés Doan, Dung Newhouse, David Nguyen, Minh Cong Uematsu, Hiroki Azevedo, João Pedro
author_sort	Castañeda, Andrés
title	A New Profile of the Global Poor
title_short	A New Profile of the Global Poor
title_full	A New Profile of the Global Poor
title_fullStr	A New Profile of the Global Poor
title_full_unstemmed	A New Profile of the Global Poor
title_sort	new profile of the global poor
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29225
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A New Profile of the Global Poor

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