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Minoiu, Camelia.

Global Poverty Estimates A Sensitivity Analysis / Camelia Minoiu. [electronic resource] : Camelia Minoiu. - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. - 1 online resource (30 p.) - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 11/234 . - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 11/234 .

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that estimates of global poverty vary significantly when they are based alternately on data from household surveys versus national accounts but are relatively consistent across different estimation methods. The decline in poverty over the past decade is found to be robust across methodological choices.

ISBN: 1463922000 : 18.00 USD

ISSN: 1018-5941

Standard No.: 10.5089/9781463922009.001 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic Development: General
Global Outlook
Global Poverty
Household Surveys
International Poverty Line
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bulgaria
Central African Republic
Dominican Republic
Georgia
Indonesia