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Monitoring Global Poverty

Report of the Commission on Global Poverty

Monitoring Global Poverty

Monitoring Global Poverty

Report of the Commission on Global Poverty

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Contents

Foreword

vii

Preface

ix

Members of the Advisory Board

xi

Key Features of the Report

xv

Abbreviations

xxiii

Introduction

1 Monitoring Extreme Poverty 2Beyond Goal 1.1: Complementary Indicators and

Multidimensionality 3 Making It Happen Index

Boxes

1.1 World Bank Classification of Countries (Economies) 1.2 2015 Sustainable Development Goals 1.3 National Poverty Statistics Reports 2.1Two Examples of Studies of Basic Needs at the

Global Level 2.2Recommendations in Chapter 1 Relevant to

Nonmonetary Indicators 2.3Possible Portfolio of Complementary Indicators at

Country Level

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Contents

Figures

1.1Measuring Global Poverty: A Tripod (with an

Additional Leg)

10

1.2The Impact of Change from 2005 ICP-Based

Estimates to 2011 ICP-Based Estimates on the

Poverty Line in India Measured in Rupees

17

1.3 National Poverty Calculation, Ghana

27

1.4Percentage of Prices from Poverty-Specific

Surveys below Prices from ICP

76

1.5 ADB Analysis of ICP for the Poor, 2005

77

2.1 Calorie Requirements in Different Countries

126

2.2 Absolute and Relative Poverty

140

2.3 Global Poverty and the Developing World

143

2.4Growth in Real Consumption (Income) per Head

for Bottom 40 Percent, 2007?12

148

2.5Growth of Real Income of Bottom 40 Percent

and Bottom 20 Percent of World Distribution

150

2.6 Long-Run View of Real Income of B40 and B20

151

2.7 Child Nutrition Indicators in Bangladesh

164

2.8 The Overlapping of Deprivation

169

Tables

1.1 Illustrative Checklist for Nonsampling Errors

52

1.2Linking Household Survey (HS) and National

Accounts (NA) Concepts of Consumption

63

2.1Characteristics of Different Approaches to Poverty

Measurement

112

2.2Dimensions in Official Multidimensional Poverty

Indexes in Latin America

158

2.3 Nutrition Domain in the SDGs

162

2.4Indicators of Deprivation Contrasted: Global MPI

and EU Social Indicators

166

2.5 Illustration of Overlapping Poverty Index

170

2.6Multitopic Household Surveys with Global or

Multiregional Coverage

173

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