Comparisons of poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption. They consider what theory can say about the direction of bias in comparisons and show that under certain conditions robust comparisons are possible. Data from Ecuador, El Salvador, and Pakistan show that the magnitude of biases can be substantial...
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1997/01/31
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政策研究报告
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WPS1709
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2010/07/01
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Poverty comparisons with non-compatible data: theory and illustrations
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austere poverty line