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

• Tác giả: David Newhouse
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.74 *Maladjusted young people
• Thông tin xuất bản: Elsevier, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 328751
• Chủ đề: 1. ADULT POVERTY; 2. CHILD POVERTY; 3. POVERTY MEASUREMENT; 4. POVERTY RATE; 5. SCALES

Tóm tắt

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 .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.