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

[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.

[发布机构] Elsevier

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

[关键词] POVERTY MEASUREMENT;POVERTY RATE;CHILD POVERTY;ADULT POVERTY;SCALES