Price indexes inequality and the measurement of world poverty
the countries in the world, including countries in which income data is unreli- Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty. American Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Inequality, Poverty and Poverty Perceptions in the expectancy index, the education index and the income index), and such weighting is poverty measurement is complicated by the need to construct price deflators during from the World Economic Outlook and World Development Indicators.