Dollar-a-day #
May 23rd, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
I was just thinking that the oft-mentioned dollar-a-day poverty line seems rather arbitrary. The Economist reports that it’s being reconsidered:
They gather 75 national poverty lines, ranging from Senegal’s severe $0.63 a day to Uruguay’s more generous measure of just over $9. From this collection, they pick the 15 lowest (Nepal, Tajikistan and 13 sub-Saharan countries) and split the difference between them. The result is a new international poverty line of $1.25 a day.