German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 4

23 May 2024, 15:15

Leibniz Universität Hannover

20. Stress-testing the international poverty line and the official global poverty statistics

Michail Moatsos (Maastricht University and King's College London)

23/05/2024, 15:15

Poverty and Inequality

Parallel Session

We investigate the current method of derivation of the international poverty line used for monitoring SDG 1 in two key directions: a) we ask whether the official method used by the World Bank is fit for the purpose of measuring extreme poverty and if their method is defensibly valid both internally and externally; and b) we ask whether the resulting statistics perform acceptably well in terms...

220. Where Is Poverty Concentrated? New Evidence Based on Internationally Consistent Urban and Poverty Measurements

Robin Moellerherm (Heidelberg University)

23/05/2024, 15:45

Parallel Session

The lack of comparable urban definitions across countries has presented a significant challenge in effectively addressing poverty in both urban and rural areas. This study aims to tackle this issue by comparing subnational poverty statistics across countries, integrating internationally consistent definitions of urban areas into the World Bank’s official global poverty measurement framework....