Poverty is intrinsically a complex social construct, and even when it is narrowly defined by a deficit of consumption spending, many thorny issues arise in setting an appropriate "poverty line". The authors limit themselves to examining how poverty - defined on a consistent, welfare-comparable...

The relative price of food increased considerably during Indonesia's recent economic crisis, so the explicit (or implicit) choice of the weight given to the inflation rate for food prices dramatically affects calculations of the poverty rate.Poverty is intrinsically a complex social construct,...