Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis

October 1, 2011

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Camelia Minoiu, and Shatakshee Dhongde. Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Consumption, Econometric analysis, Estimation techniques, Income distribution, National accounts, Personal income, Poverty

Keywords: Consumption, Consumption poverty, Day poverty line, Density function, Estimate poverty, Estimation techniques, Global, Global poverty, Household surveys, Income distribution, International poverty line, Kernel density estimation, National accounts, Nonparametric estimation method, Personal income, Poverty estimate, Sensitivity analysis, WP

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Pages:

30
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2011/234
Stock No:

WPIEA2011234
ISBN:

9781463922009
ISSN:

1018-5941

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