Dollar a Day Revisited

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem

doi:10.1093/wber/lhp007

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“…A higher educational background might provide better working opportunities for Wealthy group members (Table 2). However, the average annual income per capita for 78 sample households (313 USD) was on the one-dollar poverty line first set by the World Bank in 1990 (Ravallion et al 2009). It was equivalent to one fourth of the national average in 2011, i.e.…”

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The effect of forestland allocation to the livelihoods of local people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam: A case in Nam Dong district

Nguyen

Masuda

Iwanaga

2016

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Forestland allocation (FLA) policy in Vietnam aimed at conserving forests and improving local livelihoods.In regard to the effectiveness of FLA, some authors reported improvements in forest cover and quality, whereas others stated inappropriate implementation process and minor impacts on household income. Hence, this study examined whether disturbances in initial stage still existed, how allocated forestlands were utilized, and how FLA contributed to local livelihoods under different forest management regimes. D village of Nam Dong district, where FLA was introduced in 1995, was selected as a case, and 78 households were randomly selected for household interviews. The results revealed that shifting cultivation, once widely reported in mountainous regions, had already ceased before our survey. Natural forests allocated to groups were mainly utilized for non-wood forest product (NWFP) collection, regardless of whether those users had an allocation. Individually allocated areas were converted to acacia and recently to rubber plantations. The rotation of acacia plantation was five to seven years with intercropping cassava in the initial stage. FLA contributed to adjusting an uneven distribution of farmland and income, but the effect remained nominal. The role of FLA in income generation was limited due to small allocation area per household (1.50 ha on average). Switching to rubber trend was another reason of limited income derived from FLA. Therefore NWFP played a more significant role in the household economy than plantation yields. Investment in livestock was first preference of respondents, which suggests the importance of small-scale livestock rearing in the areas facing land shortage.

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The effect of forestland allocation to the livelihoods of local people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam: A case in Nam Dong district

Nguyen

Masuda

Iwanaga

2016

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“…According to Chen and Ravallion (2010), 80% of the national poverty lines (NPLs) used in Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula (2009) to derive the iPL of 1.25$-a-day in 2005 prices, are constructed also using some variation of a cost of basic needs approach. In all its versions, the dollar-a-day iPL is estimated by averaging a set of NPLs from a group countries (Chen and Ravallion 2001;Ferreira et al 2015;Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula 2009;Ravallion, Datt, and van de Walle 1991), without any explicit analysis of what the underlying NPLs actually represent in terms of welfare. 10 The methodological variation among the NPLs underlying the iPL, especially with respect to the encapsulated normative choices, 11 does not allow for any use of the NPLs, as they stand, to consistently measure global poverty.…”

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“…According to Chen and Ravallion (2010), "[t]he daily food bundle comprised 400 g of coarse rice and wheat and 200 g of vegetables, pulses, and fruit, plus modest amounts of milk, eggs, edible oil, spices, and tea". For an overall comparison regarding the food component, Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula (2009) report that in NPLs the average food component share is 65% of the total costs. This share in the case of the BBBs here increases to 71% signifying the BBBs' frugality.…”

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Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Dollars

Moatsos

2016

Journal of Globalization and Development

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Abstract:The widely applied "dollar-a-day" methodology identifies global absolute poverty as declining precipitously since the early 80's throughout the developing world. The methodological underpinnings of the "dollar-a-day" approach have been questioned in terms of adequately representing equivalent welfare conditions in different countries and years. These key issues of measuring global poverty are addressed here using the concept of the bare bones consumption basket (BBB). This methodology pinpoints equivalent levels of welfare, both internationally and intertemporally. The results validate the critique against the "dollar-a-day" methodology, showing large variations in costs of BBB between countries and years, even when one explicitly allows for additional expenses such as education and health. This volatility represents the differential among the typically used average CPI and a price index which is more relevant to those living in absolute poverty. On a point estimate level, success in terms of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) appears marginal. Once uncertainty in the estimates is accounted for, the BBB poverty lines provide the ground to dispute MDG 1 early celebrations. While BBB absolute poverty remains at very low levels during the entire 1983-2014 period, it also demonstrates strong persistence throughout. On the contrary, the higher welfare level BBB derivative shows overall much less flattering poverty levels.

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“…The papers by Jolliffe and Prydz "Estimating International Poverty Lines from Comparable National Thresholds" 4 and by Klasen et al "International Income Poverty Measurement: Which Way Now?" take issue with the method (used by Ravallion et al (2009), henceforth RCS), to select the fifteen poorest countries (in their sample) that were used as the reference group to calculate the World Bank official poverty lines of $1.25 and the new $1.90. Klasen et al also propose an alternative to measuring global poverty, which relies on national poverty lines and inflation data, and does not use the PPP conversion factors.…”

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