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How Not to Count the Poor
Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge  

Use of an arbitrary international poverty line and an inaccurate measure of purchasing power equivalence has helped the World Bank to show (incorrectly) that global income poverty is falling. A new methodology for global poverty assessment is called for.

May 21, 2002.

 
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