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Globalist Interview > Global Economy
Poverty — By the Numbers?
By Angus Deaton
Global economic policymakers like to give g*****ose speeches about
helping “the poor.” But how many people are really “poor”? Like all
attempts at economic measurement, that question is difficult to
answer. In a conversation with Prakash Loungani, Angus Deaton — a
Princeton University professor who has studied Indian poverty
statistics intensively — explores the difficulties.
** India has long used a 30-day recall period. In recent years, the
statistical authorities in India experimented to see what difference
the recall period makes to the estimate of the number of poor.
They found that shifting to a one week recall period would essentially
halve the number of poor in India. That must be the most successful
poverty-reduction program in the world! **