How we measure poverty underestimates its extent and depth
The country’s official definition of poverty is based on a threshold income that fails to adequately account for nonfood needs and is unrelated to actual behavior and real choices facing households. The resulting underestimation of the extent of poverty and rate of poverty reduction gives a false se...
| Publicado en: | Philippine Review of Economics Vol. 54, no. 1 (Jun. 2017), pp. 94-119 |
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| Resource Type: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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2017
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School of Economics
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