Critique of the world banks method of calculating poverty
Date Submitted: 05/27/2003 14:52:57
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 5 pages (1263 words)
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 5 pages (1263 words)
What are the main criticisms of the 'Dollar a day' method of calculating poverty?
Poverty exists throughout the whole world. In all its forms, be it relative or absolute, poverty is a mass epidemic in third-world countries especially. To successfully counter poverty as a whole therefore, it is imperative to compile and calculate the true extent of it. The most respected and most cited compilation of poverty is carried out by the World Bank (bank …
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…requiring physical energy, the whole problem is not just a numerical one.
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