Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries

Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the national level, lacking a breakdown between urban and rural areas. A key challenge to producing globally comparable estimates of urban p...

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Main Authors: Combes, Pierre-Philippe, Nakamura, Shohei, Roberts, Mark, Stewart, Benjamin
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank 2022
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099723007132220359/IDU04be12d440201083e80485d426939ec
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spelling okr-10986-376982022-07-14T05:11:08Z Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries Combes, Pierre-Philippe Nakamura, Shohei Roberts, Mark Stewart, Benjamin GLOBAL POVERTY MONITORING DEGREE OF URBANIZATION DARTBOARD HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SPATIAL PRICE DEFLATORS Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the national level, lacking a breakdown between urban and rural areas. A key challenge to producing globally comparable estimates of urban poverty is the need for consistent definitions of urban areas and poverty. This note illustrates an innovative approach to integrating globally consistent urban and poverty measurements to estimate urban poverty statistics that are directly comparable across countries. Two approaches to quantifying urban, the Degree of Urbanization and the Dartboard approaches are applied in seven case countries. By combining these delineations with official household budget survey data, poverty is estimated with international poverty lines. The empirical illustrations demonstrate that the proposed approach is potentially useful to improve the monitoring of global poverty. 2022-07-13T19:16:31Z 2022-07-13T19:16:31Z 2022-07-12 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099723007132220359/IDU04be12d440201083e80485d426939ec http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37698 English en_US Poverty and Equity Notes;No.48 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC : World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief World
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topic GLOBAL POVERTY
MONITORING
DEGREE OF URBANIZATION
DARTBOARD
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
SPATIAL PRICE DEFLATORS
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MONITORING
DEGREE OF URBANIZATION
DARTBOARD
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
SPATIAL PRICE DEFLATORS
Combes, Pierre-Philippe
Nakamura, Shohei
Roberts, Mark
Stewart, Benjamin
Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
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description Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the national level, lacking a breakdown between urban and rural areas. A key challenge to producing globally comparable estimates of urban poverty is the need for consistent definitions of urban areas and poverty. This note illustrates an innovative approach to integrating globally consistent urban and poverty measurements to estimate urban poverty statistics that are directly comparable across countries. Two approaches to quantifying urban, the Degree of Urbanization and the Dartboard approaches are applied in seven case countries. By combining these delineations with official household budget survey data, poverty is estimated with international poverty lines. The empirical illustrations demonstrate that the proposed approach is potentially useful to improve the monitoring of global poverty.
format Brief
author Combes, Pierre-Philippe
Nakamura, Shohei
Roberts, Mark
Stewart, Benjamin
author_facet Combes, Pierre-Philippe
Nakamura, Shohei
Roberts, Mark
Stewart, Benjamin
author_sort Combes, Pierre-Philippe
title Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
title_short Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
title_full Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
title_fullStr Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
title_full_unstemmed Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
title_sort estimating urban poverty consistently across countries
publisher Washington, DC : World Bank
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099723007132220359/IDU04be12d440201083e80485d426939ec
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37698
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