When Method Matters: Toward a Resolution of the Debate about Bangladesh's Poverty MeasuresWorld Bank, Policy Research Department, Poverty and Human Resources Division, 1994 - Poverty - 42 pages |
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Ahmed allowance for non-food Bangladesh Bureau basic consumption needs calories changes in poverty choice of poverty command over basic conclusion that poverty consumption bundle cumulative distribution function Dhaka distribution Equitable growth Erik Thorbecke expected value food bundle food poverty line food-energy intake food-energy method food-energy requirements Gini index growth rate higher in rural higher in urban Hossain household Huppi implied increase Indonesia Kakwani Lorenz curve mean consumption mean real consumption Measures for Bangladesh methodology national income normative judgements number of poor percentage period Policy Research population poverty comparisons poverty gap indices Poverty in Bangladesh Poverty in India poverty is higher poverty rate power of mean progress in reducing qualitative conclusions rate of growth Ravallion 1994a real food expenditure real value reducing poverty relative price robust rural areas rural poverty sector neutral setting poverty lines Squared poverty-gap index survey Table three poverty measures urban and rural urban areas World Bank