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Exploring the health-relevant poverty line: a study using the data of 663,000 individuals in Japan [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Income poverty is known to be associated with poor health outcomes. However, the poverty line, which is used to calculate the poverty rate, is arbitrarily set without specific reference to health.
Takashi Oshio
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POVERTY COMPARISONS WITH ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINES ESTIMATED FROM SURVEY DATA [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Income and Wealth, 2007
The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Common statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized that when the poverty line is calculated from sample ...
Simler. Kenneth R., Arndt, Channing
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Poverty Comparisons with Endogenous Absolute Poverty Lines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Comm on statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized that when the poverty line is calculated from sample ...
Simler, Kenneth R., Arndt, Channing
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AN ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY TO MONITOR CHRONIC AND TRANSIENT POVERTY IN INDIA

open access: yesJournal of Business & Economic Analysis, 2022
The economic growth in India has been impressive in the last few decades, yet it continues to be a home for millions of poor. The poverty measures debate across the developing world has generated more heat than light as there is no consensus on ...
M. BALAJI, U. DASH
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Reassessing the econometric measurement of inequality and poverty: toward a cost-of-living approach

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The econometric measurement of inequality and poverty in advanced capitalist economies has been preoccupied with aggregate measures of relative deprivation, namely, the Gini Index and a relative poverty rate, both of which are based on economic distances
Anson Au
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Spatial variation of household income levels in Anbar Governorate for the year 2020 [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية, 2022
The study aims to study the spatial analysis of the level of income in Anbar Governorate, one of the indicators of the standard of living of the family, as the study focused on showing the disparity in the distribution of monthly incomes for families ...
Hussein Ali Abid, Mushtaq Ahmed Ali
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Victory Tax: A Holistic Income Tax System

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens?
Donald J. Jacobs
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CONCEPTS OF POVERTY AND THE POVERTY LINE [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, 1991
Abstract.Various approaches adopted in developed economies to distinguishing between the poor and non‐poor—to setting a poverty line—are reviewed. These include the budget standard, food ratio, ‘official’, subjective and relative poverty line methods, as well as the analysis of indicators of deprivation.
Tim Callan, Brian Nolan
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Absolute Poverty Lines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Abstract Private consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which often interact with imperfect data and a desire for comparability through time. This
Arndt, Channing   +2 more
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Poverty Line Based on the Large Archipelagic Area in Indonesia in Taking Poverty Alleviation Policies

open access: yesJIET (Jurnal Ilmu Ekonomi Terapan), 2023
Various efforts to overcome poverty have been carried out by the government but the number of poor people is still quite high. Based on the 1945 Constitution, the Indonesian government has a mandate to realize social welfare for all people. Well-being is
Royhan Faradis, Uswatun Nurul Afifah
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