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The New Global Poverty Estimates ? Digging Deeper into a Hole

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Sanjay G. Reddy () (Dept. of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University)

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Recently, the World Bank released ?updated? global poverty estimates. These new numbers are based on a new price survey and a new benchmark international poverty line of $1.25 in 2005 purchasing power parities (PPPs). The new figures purport to describe world poverty since 1981, and thus affect our understanding of the world over the last quarter century of globalization. (...)

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Paper provided by International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in its series One Pager with number 65.

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Date of creation: Sep 2008
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Publication status: Published by UNDP - International Poverty Centre, September 2008, pages 1-1
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