Purchasing power parities and the Dollar-A-Day approach: An unstable relationship
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Moatsos, Michail
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Lazopoulos, Achillefs
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2021-08-06T09:10:09Z
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2021-07-12T05:16:11Z
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2021-08-06T09:10:09Z
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2021-09
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0165-1765
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10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109974
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/493941
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10.3929/ethz-b-000493941
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We show that the Dollar-A-Day methodology in global poverty measurement provides inconsistent International Poverty Line (iPL) solutions when a complete set of consistency criteria in the iPL definition is used. This article illustrates that minor fluctuations in purchasing power parity exchange rates can yield inconsistent iPLs. We find a rate of inconsistency of 46.1% and we conclude that this is a worrisome attribute of the method.
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en
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Elsevier
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Global Poverty
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PPP
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Error
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Dollar-A-Day
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Inconsistency
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Monte Carlo
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Purchasing power parities and the Dollar-A-Day approach: An unstable relationship
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Journal Article
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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2021-07-01
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Economics Letters
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206
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Econ Lett
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109974
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4 p.
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JEL - JEL::I - Health, Education, and Welfare::I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty::I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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Amsterdam
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published
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