New Global Estimates of Child Poverty and their Sensitivity to Alternative Equivalence Scales

Newhouse, David ; Suá ; rez Becerra, Pablo ; Evans, Martin

Elsevier

关键词: POVERTY MEASUREMENT;    POVERTY RATE;    CHILD POVERTY;    ADULT POVERTY;    SCALES;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.econlet.2017.06.007
RP-ID  :  123187

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper uses micro-data from household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. 19.5% of children are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2% of adults. Poverty rates for children remain above 17%, and are greater than adult poverty rates, for all reasonable two-parameter equivalence scales.