Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique

A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely satisfy this premise. This article proposes an i...

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Main Authors:	Arndt, Channing, Simler, Kenneth R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4695

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spelling	okr-10986-46952021-04-23T14:02:19Z Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique Arndt, Channing Simler, Kenneth R. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230 A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty lines that are utility consistent. Applications to date illustrate that utility-consistent poverty measurements derived from the proposed approach and those derived from current CBN best practices often differ substantially, with the current approach tending to systematically overestimate (underestimate) poverty in urban (rural) zones. 2012-03-30T07:29:17Z 2012-03-30T07:29:17Z 2010 Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change 00130079 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4695 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Egypt, Arab Republic of Mozambique
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spellingShingle	Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230 Arndt, Channing Simler, Kenneth R. Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
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description	A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty lines that are utility consistent. Applications to date illustrate that utility-consistent poverty measurements derived from the proposed approach and those derived from current CBN best practices often differ substantially, with the current approach tending to systematically overestimate (underestimate) poverty in urban (rural) zones.
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author	Arndt, Channing Simler, Kenneth R.
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title	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
title_short	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
title_full	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
title_fullStr	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
title_full_unstemmed	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique
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Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique

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