Abstract

Monitoring Global Poverty

Highlights

  • The Scope of the ReportIn 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its development work worldwide

  • Assessing the quantitative impact of adjustments for the missing population would depend on cooperation at the country level, including from high-income countries. It would require additional funding. It is recommended: Recommendation 3: There should be an investigation of the extent to which people are “missing” from the global poverty count, and proposals made for adjustments where appropriate at the national level for survey underrepresentation and noncoverage by surveys; more generally, the World Bank should carry out a review, in conjunction with other members of the United Nations (UN) statistical system, of the fitness for purpose of the baseline population data for each country, and the methods used to update from the baseline to the years covered by the global poverty estimates

  • The step from availability to comparability is one that the World Bank is taking seriously, but it is one where greater transparency would be welcome: Recommendation 6: The World Bank should make public the principles according to which household survey data are selected for use in the global poverty count; and there should be an assessment at national level of the availability and quality of the required household survey data, and a review of possible alternative sources and methods of ex post harmonization

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Summary

A Middle Way

The subject of this Report—measuring global poverty—is highly controversial. There are those who believe that the current exercise is futile. Recommendation 3: There should be an investigation of the extent to which people are “missing” from the global poverty count, and proposals made for adjustments where appropriate at the national level for survey underrepresentation and noncoverage by surveys; more generally, the World Bank should carry out a review, in conjunction with other members of the UN statistical system, of the fitness for purpose of the baseline population data for each country, and the methods used to update from the baseline to the years covered by the global poverty estimates. Recommendation 9: The World Bank, as a user of Consumer Price Indexes (CPI), should, in conjunction with the responsible international bodies and with the national statistical agencies, seek to improve the quality of the domestic CPI, with particular references to those aspects most relevant to global poverty measurement; this should include examination of the likely magnitude of any bias, and exploration of special price indexes for the poor. Recommendation 19: The Complementary Indicators should include a multidimensioned poverty indicator based on the counting approach

Chapter 3: Making It Happen Recommendation 20
Introduction
OPL as percentage of mean per
Conclusions
Allowance for nonfood items
Mean consumption per head of country in which person lives
Education
Findings
The implications for data handling have been briefly described in “Assessment
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