Poverty line: Eight countries’ experiences and the issue of specificity and consistency
Asra, Abuzar; Santos-Francisco, Vivian | February 2001
Abstract
“Specificity or relevance” of a poverty line refers to the extent to which the poverty line could reflect the specific characters of an area. “Consistency or comparability” concerns with the ability of the poverty lines to indicate comparable level of ‘welfare’ across space and time. The paper presents eight countries’ experiences in deriving their poverty lines. It particularly pays attention to the above two issues. It finds that, in constructing poverty lines, countries follow various approaches: some countries give more weight to the ‘relevance’ than to ‘comparability’, while others explicitly aim to have more comparable poverty lines. In practice, there could be a trade-off between the two aspects of poverty measurement, and the choice rests on the country and on the purpose of measuring poverty
Citation
Asra, Abuzar; Santos-Francisco, Vivian. 2001. Poverty line: Eight countries’ experiences and the issue of specificity and consistency. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2079. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
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