Wang, Sangui (contributor) - 2004
magnitude of
poverty reduction in recent years
2
. d) The implicit inflation rates evident in the official
poverty lines … during the high inflation years of 1988 and 1989, and there is
a sharp increase in the poverty line 1997 that is far in … excess of inflation. This helps
explain why official statistics show a steady reduction in poverty in the late 1980s
while …