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...
Main Authors: | Arndt, Channing, Simler, Kenneth R. |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4695 |
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