Arndt, Channing; Simler, Kenneth R. - In: Economic Development and Cultural Change 58 (2010) 3, pp. 449-474
lines that are utility consistent. Applications to date illustrate that utility-consistent poverty measurements derived from …A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space …. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely …