Poverty Lines in History, Theory, and Current International Practice

This paper compares historical poverty baskets to modern food security and poverty lines. Changes in the historical baskets and indexing methods are proposed to bring historical studies into better alignment with modern measures as well as with historically based estimates of energy requirements. In addition, it is argued that modern poverty measures could be improved by emulating the historical methods.

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Year of publication:	2013-12-02
Authors:	Allen, Robert
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Oxford University
Subject:	poverty measurement \| poverty line \| subsistence ratio \| nutritional standards \| food security

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Economics Series Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 685
Classification:	I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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