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POVERTY LINE, POVERTY THRESHOLD, POVERTY FORECASTING, METHODS

THE BULLETIN OF THE TAJIK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. SERIES OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2023
In this article, the author focuses on poverty and its consequences. The SBM method was used to calculate the poverty threshold, which helped to determine the upper and lower limits of poverty and forecast the poverty rate for the next three years. The data set entries included income, education, healthcare, and basic needs from 2020 to 2022.
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Specifying Poverty Lines

2022
AbstractThere are two distinct issues in the measurement of poverty. The first issue is identifying the poor, and the second one is constructing an aggregate poverty index, measuring the degree of suffering by a society. The literature on poverty measurement has primarily focused on the second issue.
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
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TESTING POVERTY LINES

Review of Income and Wealth, 2006
In theory, a poverty line can be defined as the cost of a common (inter‐personally comparable) utility level across a population. But how can one know if this holds in practice? For groups sharing common consumption needs but facing different prices, the theory of revealed preference can be used to derive testable implications of utility consistency ...
Martin Ravallion, Michael Lokshin
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Poverty Lines and Their Role in Reducing Poverty

2020
A full-length article which reviews the history of poverty lines and reviews their role in tackling poverty.
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A Comparison Between the Food Ratio Poverty Line and the Leyden Poverty Line

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982
as the cross-sectional characteristics of that process, which most other studies have not been able to undertake. We find that, on average, the price of a stock moves in a negative direction, significantly, and within 4 days in response to the filing of an antitrust suit by the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission.
van Praag, Bernard M S   +2 more
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Poverty comparisons with common relative poverty lines

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016
Relative poverty lines are increasingly being used in poverty comparison studies. Existing methods assume that the distributions being compared are distinct with independent relative poverty lines....
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