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RELATIVE POVERTY LINES: AN APPLICATION TO IRISH DATA FOR 1973 AND 1980 ESRI Working Paper No 4, February 1988
... be used to calculate an equivalent income fbr each household, the average for the sample, and the poverty lines, using each of the three sets of equivaience scales in turn.. income of ea[r] ...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty Relative Poverty Lines
... absolute poverty lines based on calorific-defined poverty lines, they found that the proportion of poor people was measured in about 52 per ...relative poverty lines measured as ...
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Food Security Incidences Based on Monetary and Caloric Poverty Lines in Mbeya and Makete Districts, Tanzania
... monetary poverty line of TZS 1 10,219 per adult equivalent for 28 days in 2007 prices and a caloric poverty line of 2,200 kcal per adult equivalent per day are ...the lines should be more ...caloric ...
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Poverty Lines, What are they telling us?
... relevant poverty measurements and thresholds literature, describes some common ways to measure and define poverty, acknowledges the large range of practices that governments and institutions use to gauge ...
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Poverty measurement (in India) : defining group specific poverty lines or taking preferences into account?
... income poverty measurement when agents differ in preferences and face different ...the poverty mea- sure consistent with preferences: an agent qualifies as poor if and only if she prefers the poverty ...
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Brazilian Poverty Between and Within Groups: Decomposing by Geographical Group Specific Poverty Lines
... Obviously, food baskets vary across geographical locations, such as municipal- ities, metropolis, urban and rural areas, since preferences and prices change substantially. Rocha (2003) estimates the minimum cost of food ...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty Absolute Poverty Lines
... cases, poverty here is taken to be a situation where too little energy intake or too little specific nutrients are ...a poverty line, nutritional information must be converted into monetary ...
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CROSS NATIONAL POVERTY COMPARISONS USING RELATIVE POVERTY LINES: AN APPLICATION AND SOME LESSONS ESRI Working Paper No 9, June 1989
... In this case, in other words, we would be comparing the number of persons in households falling below x per cent of average household income with the ~umber of persons in families fallin[r] ...
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Monitoring Poverty Trends and Exploring Poverty Dynamics in Ireland
... Table 3.3: Percentage of Persons Below Mean Relative Income Poverty Lines Based on Income Averaged Across Individuals, Living in Ireland Surveys 1994, 1997 and 1998.. The "head count" of[r] ...
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METHODOLOGY ADOPTED IN INDIA FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE POVERTY
... state-specific poverty lines of base year (1973-74) were updated for subsequent years using state-specific price indices especially constructed by taking weighted average of the commodity group-wise ...
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The Reality and Masquerade behind Bargaining over Welfare Pie Sizing, Delivery and Slicing
... the poverty line parameter as precondition for the ...efficient poverty line sets up a one-to-one corresponding to “binding ...the lines corresponding to efficient slices will be rejected for ...on ...
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Proxy Means Tests for Targeting Subsidies Scheme in Iran
... the poverty lines ...absolute poverty lines are anchored in some absolute standard to meet basic ...setting poverty lines has a fixed real value over time and ...relative ...
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PANEL RESEARCH ON POVERTY IN IRELAND ESRI Working Paper No 14, October 1989
... The analysis of the composition of those below the relative poverty lines in the ESRI sample, and a comparison with corresponding results derived from the 1973 and 1980 Household Budget [r] ...
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Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland: Results from the 2000 Living in Ireland survey
... income poverty lines were most often higher than in 1998 or ...median-based poverty lines showed similar patterns but produced slightly higher increases than lines derived as ...
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I. Poverty, Basic
... nutritional requirements. International agencies have also utilized this approach by estimating poverty lines for the development world based on income figures that [r] ...
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MEASURING TRENDS IN POVERTY OVER TIME: SOME ROBUST RESULTS FOR IRELAND 1980 87 ESRI Working Paper No 7, December 1988
... One straig~1tforward way of doirig so is to defir1e a set of ,-1=.,Jati·~,e poverty lines, based on average income in the distribution.. Usir1g a relative poverty li11e may be consistent[r] ...
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Poverty Trends with Limited Data in Cape Verde
... in poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues between the ...in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because ...
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Constructing a Food Poverty Indicator for Ireland using the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2004 2010
... food poverty indicator from the ...food poverty and thus this limited the possibilities of the indicators developed in this ...food poverty index used in this research succeeded in measuring the ...
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A subgroup decomposition of inequality of poverty in Cameroon
... of poverty in Cameroon, we used the capabilities approach and a Sub-group decomposition, and we construct a multidimensional poverty indicator ...(MPI). Poverty and inequality decomposition execute ...
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Does higher economic growth reduce poverty and increase inequality? Evidence from Urban India
... India-Urban Poverty Report 2009 by Government of India (2009) finds that about 80 million people were estimated as poor (measured by poverty head count ratio) in the cities and towns of India in 2007-08, ...
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