A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 141-172

  Ferreira, Francisco H G ^a   Chen, Shaohua ^a   Dabalen, Andrew ^a   Dikhanov, Yuri ^a   Hamadeh, Nada ^a   Jolliffe, Dean ^a   Narayan, Ambar ^a   Prydz, Espen Beer ^a   Revenga, Ana ^a   Sangraula, Prem ^a   Serajuddin, Umar ^a   Yoshida, Nobuo ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Global poverty; Poverty measurement; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962640937     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-016-9326-6     Document Type: Article

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