LIVING ON $1.25 A DAY.

LIVING ON $1.25 A DAY. The phrase isn’t as memorable as “LIVING ON $1 A DAY”, is it? This article in The Economist also thinks that “as a slogan, $1.25 just doesn’t have the same ring.” The “dollar-a-day” definition goes back to a World Bank report in 1990. Now one of the researchers has looked at the much better data that is still available and has published a report that proposes a new “international poverty line” of $1.25 a day.