The Philippine poverty line does it really tell us who is poor?
There is a need to challenge official poverty discourse. For one, official poverty estimation in the Philippines is based on arbitrary assumptions thta keep the poverty threshold low,thereby reducing poverty incidence. In a country of high inequality and where the differences in incomes of a large s...
| 發表在: | Philippine Journal of Social Development Vol. 4 (2012), 41-67 |
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| 語言: | English |
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2012
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