Measuring global poverty: Why PPP methods matter

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Ackland, Robert
Dowrick, Stephen
Freyens, Benoit

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MIT Press

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We present theory and evidence to suggest that, in the context of analyzing global poverty, the EKS approach to estimating purchasing power parities yields more appropriate international comparison of real incomes than the Geary-Khamis approach. Our analy

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Review of Economics and Statistics

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