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Purchasing Power Parities Used in Global Poverty Measurement

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  • Aziz Atamanov
  • Dean M. Jolliffe
  • Christoph Lakner
  • Espen Beer Prydz

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Given substantial differences in price levels across countries, international spatial deflators are needed to compare welfare aggregates to a common international poverty line. This note describes the sources of the purchasing power parities that are used forevery country included in the World Bank's estimates of global poverty, published in PovcalNet. These exchange rates are used to express welfare aggregates in 2011 international dollars.

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  • Aziz Atamanov & Dean M. Jolliffe & Christoph Lakner & Espen Beer Prydz, 2018. "Purchasing Power Parities Used in Global Poverty Measurement," Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note Series 5, The World Bank.
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    1. Atamanov, Aziz & Tandon, Sharad & Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys & Vergara Bahena, Mexico Alberto, 2020. "Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them," IZA Discussion Papers 13363, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Christoph Lakner & Daniel Gerszon Mahler & Mario Negre & Espen Beer Prydz, 2022. "How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 20(3), pages 559-585, September.

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