Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire
Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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English
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for nonfood spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank’s $1-a-day line because it is (i) clearly related to survival and well being; (ii) comparable across time and space since the same nu...
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Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1968992375
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1968992375
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0002-8282
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1944-7981
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10.1257/aer.20161080
