Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America

Latin American Economic Review

Table 1 Poverty rates worldwide.

	US$1.90 PPP				US$3.20 PPP
	1981	1993	2002	2013	1981	1993	2002	2013
Headcount ratio
East Asia and Pacific	80.47	53.69	29.98	3.68	93.55	79.58	57.29	17.64
Europe and Central Asia		5.84	6.24	2.16		15.72	15.12	6.81
Latin America and the Caribbean	16.3	14.54	13.06	4.91	31.05	28.94	26.72	11.59
Middle East and North Africa		6.67	3.23	2.31		28.70	19.65	13.14
South Asia	54.71	44.82	38.68	14.66	85.27	80.24	75.55	51.97
Sub-Saharan Africa		59.05	56.14	40.98		78.06	78.02	66.48
World total	42.22	33.99	25.81	10.70	57.23	54.50	47.39	28.28
Poverty gap
East Asia and Pacific	30.28	19.32	9.25	0.69	58.81	39.42	23.72	4.60
Europe and Central Asia		1.91	1.85	0.57		5.44	5.38	2.15
Latin America and the Caribbean	6.74	6.12	5.33	2.25	13.66	12.47	11.26	4.59
Middle East and North Africa		1.26	0.60	0.47		7.78	4.61	3.09
South Asia	17.45	11.86	9.44	2.67	40.07	33.78	30.03	15.4
Sub-Saharan Africa		27.51	25.31	15.96		44.72	42.96	31.86
World total	17.96	11.95	8.41	3.26	31.38	25.67	20.35	9.93
Poverty gap squared
East Asia and Pacific	21.69	9.14	3.92	0.23	40.42	23.2	12.50	1.72
Europe and Central Asia		1.02	0.78	0.24		2.76	2.67	0.97
Latin America and the Caribbean	4.03	3.75	3.27	1.56	8.19	7.48	6.63	2.77
Middle East and North Africa		0.40	0.19	0.16		2.97	1.63	1.12
South Asia	7.47	4.40	3.28	0.75	22.29	17.17	14.63	6.11
Sub-Saharan Africa		16.27	14.74	8.41		30.02	28.16	19.06
World total	9.70	5.81	3.96	1.57	20.09	14.80	11.10	4.88

PPP purchasing power parity. Unit of measure is the FGT index multiplied by one hundred