TY - BOOK ID - 135825933 TI - Poverty Lines Across the World PY - 2010 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Absolute poverty KW - Achieving Shared Growth KW - Economic growth KW - Household size KW - Income KW - Income distribution KW - Income poverty KW - Inequality KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - National poverty KW - National poverty lines KW - Nutrition KW - Nutritional status KW - Per capita consumption KW - Poor KW - Poverty Assessments KW - Poverty comparisons KW - Poverty line KW - Poverty Lines KW - Poverty measurement KW - Poverty rates KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Regional Economic Development KW - Rural Poverty Reduction KW - Targeting UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135825933 AB - National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under USD 1 per person per day to over USD 40 (at 2005 purchasing power parity). What accounts for these huge differences, and can they be understood within a common global definition of poverty? For all except the poorest countries, the absolute, nutrition-based, poverty lines found in practice tend to behave more like relative lines, in that they are higher for richer countries. Prevailing methods of setting absolute lines allow ample scope for such relativity, even when nutritional norms are common across countries. Both macro data on poverty lines across the world and micro data on subjective perceptions of poverty are consistent with a weak form of relativity that combines absolute consumption needs with social-inclusion needs that are positive for the poorest but rise with a country's mean consumption. The strong form of relativism favored by some developed countries - whereby the line is set at a fixed proportion of the mean - emerges as the limiting case for very rich countries. ER -