Arbeitspapier
Absolute poverty: When necessity displaces desire
A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank's '$-a-day' line because it is (1) clearly related to survival and well being, (2) comparable across time and space since the same nutritional requirements are used everywhere while non-food spending is tailored to climate, (3) adjusts consumption patterns to local prices, (4) presents no index number problems since solutions are always in local prices, and (5) requires only readily available information. The new approach implies much more poverty than the World Bank's, especially in Asia.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: LIS Working Paper Series ; No. 706
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- Subject
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absolute poverty
diet problem
linear programming
World Bank poverty line
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Allen, Robert C.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- (where)
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Luxembourg
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Allen, Robert C.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
Time of origin
- 2017
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