Weakly relative poverty (English)

Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social inclusion. That assumption is inconsistent with evidence on the social roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty...

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Chen,Shaohua;

Ravallion,Martin;
Document Date
2009/02/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS4844
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1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Weakly relative poverty
Keywords
national poverty line

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Chen,Shaohua; Ravallion,Martin.

Weakly relative poverty (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4844 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/699441468337150432

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