Poverty lines
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- Flawed data means the incidence of poverty in Greater Cairo is being severely under-estimated
- ( S. Sabry / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2009)
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The way in which poverty is defined and measured influences who is considered to be poor, how the state responds and how successful the state responses are judged to be. As this paper aims to demon...
- Estimating world poverty using 2005 PPPs: methodological limitations and alternatives
- ( S. Reddy / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , 2008)
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For the first time since 1993, the World Bank released new Purchasing Power Parity rates – calculated for 2005 – earlier this year. Accordingly, the new international poverty line is es...
Revisiting China's poverty using new World Bank data
- ( S. Chen;M. Ravallion / World Bank , 2008)
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When considering which countries have most successfully reduced poverty in the last twenty years, China tends to top the list. But until recently, China’s poverty line was calculate...
- Why traditional measures of poverty are inadequate
- ( A. Rahman / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee , 2007)
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This paper outlines grass-roots experiences in Bangladesh of creative self-reliant initiatives of disadvantaged people to promote their lives independent of government and NGO programmes. It argues...
- How has civil war changed Burundi's poverty rate?
- ( T. Bundervoet / Households in Conflict Network , 2006)
- Figures from the early 1990s show that Burundi suffered a poverty rate in line with average rates for Sub-Saharan Africa. A decade on, and the debilitating effects of civil war had made their mark on ...
- Poverty assessment methods need re-thinking
- ( N. Kakwani; H.H. Son / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , 2006)
- Accurate global poverty estimates are fundamental to the effectiveness of monitoring changes over time and the targeting of poverty reduction efforts. The accuracy of the dollar-a-day measure has rece...
- A brief outline of Sen's capabilities approach to measuring poverty
- ( N. Kakwani / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , 2006)
- Much research on poverty has focused on income or consumption-based poverty measures. Yet there is increasing recognition that poverty is multidimensional, encompassing all important human requirement...
- Poverty estimation techniques
- ( S. Reddy; S. Visaria; M. Asali / Institute of Social Analysis, New York , 2006)
- For an exercise of poverty assessment to be meaningful, it is necessary (although not sufficient) to apply a single identification criterion to all individuals. Efforts to assess poverty at the region...
- Going beyond the calorie measure in defining poverty
- ( M. Guruswamy; R.J. Abraham / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2006)
- Current Indian poverty measurements, established in 1979, are based on a minimum caloric intake, with rural and urban variation. This paper argues that it is unacceptable for a definition of poverty t...
- A policymakers guide to applying relative poverty lines
- ( L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005)
- This training module illustrates how to define relative poverty lines - those based on approaches that consider the welfare position of each individual or household in relation to the welfare position...
