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August 28, 2008
Of PPP estimates and poverty
The World Bank's new poverty line is $1.25 a day in 2005 prices. That makes about 400 million more poor people than under previous estimates, which used 1993 prices.
Update: Owen Barder catches the media bungling the numbers.
Posted by Dingel at August 28, 2008 11:10 AM