TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minoiu,Camelia
AU  - Dhongde,Shatakshee
AU  - Minoiu,Camelia
TI  - Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis 
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1463922000 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Economic Development: General
KW  - imf
KW  - Global Outlook
KW  - Global Poverty
KW  - Household Surveys
KW  - International Poverty Line
KW  - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Central African Republic
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Indonesia
N2  - 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
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