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Do you think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring poverty haven't thought about a problem you thought of in a few minutes? > These poverty figures
by Aunche 2y ago
Do you think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring poverty haven't thought about a problem you thought of in a few minutes?
> These poverty figures take into account non-monetary forms of income — for poor families today and in the past, this is important, as many of them are subsistence farmers who live largely from their own food production.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoThis dataset certainly does not do this adequately. This is a very active area of research, and it will take a long time before we converge to reasonable estimates of the past. Even today, countries routinely change their GDP figures after a few years because of how difficult such a thing is to to measure. You should mentally put large error bars on these graphs. The fact that they don't come up with them already is concerning.