[EQ] Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Angus Deaton, Princeton University

January 17th, 2010

Available online PDF [61p.] at: http://bit.ly/8KmBrH

 

“…………I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of PPP price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a billion globally poor people came from an inappropriate updating of the global poverty line, not from the ICP International Comparison Project revisions. Even so, PPP comparisons between widely different countries rest on weak theoretical and foundations.

I argue for wider use of self-reports from international monitoring surveys, and for a global poverty line that is truly denominated in US dollars. ……..”  (au)

Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs)

 

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