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    A Poverty Line Contingent on Reference Groups: Implications for the Extent of Poverty in some Asian Countries

    Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; Silber, Jacques | November 2016
    Abstract
    This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an “amalgam poverty line”, which is a weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty line, namely 100%, 90%, 66%, and 50%. The paper provides estimates of the headcount ratio and poverty gap ratio under the various scenarios for 25 different countries or regions examined.
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    Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; Silber, Jacques. 2016. A Poverty Line Contingent on Reference Groups: Implications for the Extent of Poverty in some Asian Countries. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6980.
    Keywords
    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
    Project finance
    Resources evaluation
    Needs assessment
    Cost benefit analysis
    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
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Project Evaluation & Review Technique
    Performance Evaluation
    Impact Evaluation Reports
    Evaluation Criteria
    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
    Results mapping
    Risk assessment
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
    Cost effectiveness
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    Author
    Chakravarty, Satya R.
    Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa
    Silber, Jacques
    Theme
    Poverty
    Evaluation
    Labor Migration

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