Who is Not Poor? Dreaming of a World Truly Free of Poverty

IF 8.7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES World Bank Research Observer Pub Date : 2006-01-25 DOI:10.1093/WBRO/LKJ002
L. Pritchett
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When the World Bank dreams of 'a world free of poverty,' what should it be dreaming? In measuring global income or consumption expenditure poverty, the World Bank has widely adopted the $1 a day standard as a lower bound. Because this standard is based on poverty lines in the poorest countries, anyone with income or expenditures below this line will truly be poor. But there is no consensus standard for the upper bound of the global poverty line: above what level of income or expenditures is someone truly not poor? This article proposes that the World Bank compute its lower and upper bounds in a methodologically equivalent way, using the poverty lines of the poorest countries for the lower bound and the poverty lines of the richest countries for the upper bound. The resulting upper bound global poverty line will be 10 times higher than the current lower bound and at least 5 times higher than the currently used alternative lower bound of $2 a day. And in tracking progress toward a world free of poverty, the World Bank should compute measures of global poverty using a variety of weights on the depth and intensity of poverty for a range of poverty lines between the global lower and upper bounds. For instance, rather than trying to artificially force the global population of 6.2 billion (a billion is 1,000 million) into just two categories 'poor' and 'not poor,' with the new range of poverty lines the estimates would be that 1.3 billion people are 'destitute' (below $1 a day), another 1.6 billion are in 'extreme poverty' (above $1 a day but below $2 dollar a day), and another 2.5 billion are in 'global poverty' (above extreme poverty but below the upper bound poverty line).
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谁不穷?梦想一个真正没有贫困的世界
当世界银行梦想“一个没有贫困的世界”时,它应该梦想什么?在衡量全球收入或消费支出贫困时,世界银行(World Bank)普遍采用每天1美元的标准作为贫困线下限。因为这个标准是基于最贫穷国家的贫困线,任何收入或支出低于这条贫困线的人都是真正的穷人。但是,对于全球贫困线的上限并没有统一的标准:超过什么收入或支出水平的人才算真正不贫穷?本文建议世界银行以方法上相同的方式计算其下限和上限,使用最贫穷国家的贫困线作为下限,使用最富裕国家的贫困线作为上限。由此产生的全球贫困线上限将比目前的下限高10倍,比目前使用的每天2美元的替代下限至少高5倍。在跟踪实现无贫困世界的进展时,世界银行应该根据全球下限和上限之间的一系列贫困线,利用对贫困深度和强度的各种权重来计算全球贫困指标。例如,而不是试图人为地迫使全球62亿人口(十亿10亿)分为两类“贫穷”和“不可怜,”与新范围的贫困线估计将有13亿人“贫困”(低于1美元一天),另一个16亿人“极度贫困”(上图1美元一天但低于每天2美元),另有25亿人在“全球贫困”(上图极端贫困但上界贫困线以下)。
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