Social Sciences
7 years ago

Global Poverty Rankings Shift with New Method, Revealing Extreme Inequality

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
International Comparisons of Income Poverty and Extreme Income Poverty
McKinley L. Blackburn

Paper Summary

The article compares income poverty levels across different countries using different methods. It looks at how absolute and relative poverty measurements affect the results. The researchers also studied extreme poverty by lowering the poverty line.

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