Poverty lines
Impacts of policies on poverty: relative poverty lines
A policymakers guide to applying relative poverty lines
Authors:
L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati
Publisher:
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 of others belonging to the same community.
After emphasising the importance of the relative poverty concept in policy work, the authors discuss two methods to define relative poverty lines - income level and income position. The module provides the reader with concepts and tools to build poverty lines on the basis of relative concepts of poverty and to illustrate related advantages and shortcomings implicit in these methods.
This module is one in a series of EASYPol modules from the FAO.
