Poverty line: Eight countries’ experiences and the issue of specificity and consistency
dc.contributor.author | Abuzar Asra | |
dc.contributor.author | Vivian Santos-Francisco | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-30T14:45:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-30T14:45:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-02-01 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2079 | |
dc.description.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 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Asian Development Bank | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
dc.title | Poverty line: Eight countries’ experiences and the issue of specificity and consistency | |
dc.type | Working Papers | |
dc.subject.expert | Alleviating Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Anti-Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Extreme Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Fight Against Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Global Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Health Aspects Of Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Indicators Of Poverty | |
dc.subject.expert | Participatory Poverty Assessment | |
dc.subject.expert | Poverty Eradication | |
dc.subject.expert | Poverty Analysis | |
dc.subject.expert | Poverty In Developing Countries | |
dc.subject.expert | Poverty Reduction Efforts | |
dc.subject.expert | Urban Poverty | |
dc.subject.adb | Development Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Environmental Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Economic Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Educational Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Demographic Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Health Indicators | |
dc.subject.adb | Disadvantaged Groups | |
dc.subject.adb | Low Income Groups | |
dc.subject.adb | Socially Disadvantaged Children | |
dc.subject.adb | Rural Conditions | |
dc.subject.adb | Rural Development | |
dc.subject.adb | Social Conditions | |
dc.subject.adb | Urban Development | |
dc.subject.adb | Urban Sociology | |
dc.subject.natural | Poor | |
dc.subject.natural | Economic forecasting | |
dc.subject.natural | Health expectancy | |
dc.subject.natural | Social groups | |
dc.subject.natural | Political participation | |
dc.subject.natural | Distribution of income | |
dc.subject.natural | Inequality of income | |
dc.subject.natural | Developing countries | |
dc.subject.natural | Rural community development | |
dc.subject.natural | Mass society | |
dc.subject.natural | Social change | |
dc.subject.natural | Social policy | |
dc.subject.natural | Social stability | |
dc.subject.natural | Population | |
dc.subject.natural | Sustainable development | |
dc.subject.natural | Peasantry | |
dc.subject.natural | Urban policy | |
dc.subject.natural | Urban renewal | |
dc.title.series | Economic Staff Papers | |
dc.contributor.imprint | Asian Development Bank | |
oar.theme | Poverty | |
oar.theme | Labor Migration | |
oar.adminregion | Asia and the Pacific Region | |
oar.country | Bangladesh | |
oar.country | Bhutan | |
oar.country | India | |
oar.country | Maldives | |
oar.country | Nepal | |
oar.country | Sri Lanka | |
oar.country | Brunei Darussalam | |
oar.country | Cambodia | |
oar.country | Indonesia | |
oar.country | Lao People's Democratic Republic | |
oar.country | Malaysia | |
oar.country | Myanmar | |
oar.country | Philippines | |
oar.country | Singapore | |
oar.country | Thailand | |
oar.country | Viet Nam | |
oar.country | Cook Islands | |
oar.country | Fiji | |
oar.country | Kiribati | |
oar.country | Marshall Islands | |
oar.country | Micronesia, Federated States of | |
oar.country | Nauru | |
oar.country | Palau | |
oar.country | Papua New Guinea | |
oar.country | Samoa | |
oar.country | Solomon Islands | |
oar.country | Timor-Leste | |
oar.country | Tonga | |
oar.country | Tuvalu | |
oar.country | Vanuatu | |
oar.country | Afghanistan | |
oar.country | Armenia | |
oar.country | Azerbaijan | |
oar.country | Georgia | |
oar.country | Kazakhstan | |
oar.country | Kyrgyz Republic | |
oar.country | Pakistan | |
oar.country | Tajikistan | |
oar.country | Turkmenistan | |
oar.country | Uzbekistan | |
oar.country | China, People's Republic of | |
oar.country | Hong Kong, China | |
oar.country | Republic of Korea | |
oar.country | Mongolia | |
oar.country | Taipei,China | |
oar.identifier | OAR-001641 | |
oar.author | Asra, Abuzar | |
oar.author | Santos-Francisco, Vivian | |
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