Poverty comparisons with endogenous absolute poverty lines

Type Conference Paper - International Association of Agricultural Economists conference, Gold Coast, Australia
Title Poverty comparisons with endogenous absolute poverty lines
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2006
URL http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/25775/1/cp060753.pdf
Abstract
A principal objective of poverty measurement is to make comparisons between
groups. Did poverty decline following implementation of a poverty reduction program?
Is poverty higher in the hills or on the coast? These questions have become ever more
important in recent years. Besides the high-profile Millennium Development Goal of
halving world poverty by 2015, country development programs and donor support are
increasingly driven by the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which
requires close monitoring of poverty levels and detectable progress in reducing poverty.

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