Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Molano, Wilma - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2009
To monitor changes in absolute poverty across time, it is crucial to ensure that the established poverty line is a … nonfood needs. Typically, the food (component of the) poverty line is set with the cost of basic needs method, which entails … determining the price of some nutritional benchmark through an artifice. In the Philippines, the official food poverty line is …