Counting the world's poor: Problems and possible solutions
Counting the world's poor: Problems and possible solutions
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DOI：
10.1093/wbro/16.2.125
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发表时间：
2001-09-01
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8.1
通讯作者：
Deaton, A
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作者：
Deaton, A
正如最近的讨论所表明的那样，在整个世界和某些国家（最明显的是印度）历史性的高经济增长率面前，减贫工作明显不足，这为经济增长无助于减贫的论点提供了燃料。我们能有多大的把握相信这些数据确实支持这些推论。在国际一级。定期修订购买力平价汇率对贫穷估计数造成严重破坏，改变贫穷估计数的方式与穷人的实际经历几乎没有关系或根本没有关系。在国内一级，衡量贫穷的问题不仅对世界统计很重要，而且对追踪个别国家内的收入贫穷也很重要。然而，在许多国家，调查数据----贫穷计数的来源----和国民账户----经济增长衡量的来源之间存在着巨大的和日益扩大的差异。因此，经济增长与贫穷之间的关系充其量是微弱的。
As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth-both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most notably India)-provides fuel for the argument that economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences.; At the international level. the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing them in ways that have little or nothing to do with the actual experience of the poor. At the domestic level, the problems in measuring poverty are important not only for the world count but also for tracking income poverty within individual countries. Yet, in many countries, there are large and growing discrepancies between the survey data-the source of poverty counts-and the national accounts-the source of the measure of economic growth. Thus economic growth, as measured, has at best a weak relationship with poverty, as measured.