Deaton, A. (2005). Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world). Review of Economics and statistics, 87(1), 1-19.
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there are better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole and in large countries, particularly India, China, and ...