Mangahas, Mahar - In: Philippine Review of Economics 38 (2001) 2, pp. 122-134
Surveys of self-rated poverty, done in the Philippines at the national level 56 times over 1983-2001, quarterly since 1992, demonstrate that poverty is volatile even in the short run. The self-rated poor are about twice as many as the poor officially defined. The official poverty line meets the...