Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Global Poor

• Tác giả: Angus Deaton
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 330.91 Treatment by areas, regions, places in general
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 329317
• Chủ đề: 1. Index Numbers and Aggregation; 2. Leading Indicators C430; 3. Macroeconomics: Consumption; 4. Saving; 5. Wealth E210

Tóm tắt

The global poverty count uses a common global poverty line, often referred to as the dollar-a-day line, currently .25 at 2005 international prices, whose construction and application depends on purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates for consumption. The price indexes that underlie the PPPs used for this purpose are constructed for purposes of national income accounting, using weights that represent patterns of aggregate consumption, not the consumption patterns of the global poor. We use household surveys from 62 developing countries to calculate global poverty-weighted PPPs and to calculate global poverty lines and new global poverty counts.