Food purchased and consumed away from home is a growing share of household expenditure in developing countries. Therefore, measuring the monetary value and estimating the caloric equivalent of these meals are increasingly important for the accurate calculation of a cost-of-basic-needs poverty line. The standard approach uses the per-calorie cost of the food consumed at home to estimate the caloric equivalent of food purchased and consumed away from...
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2022/04/26
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10018
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2022/04/26
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Determining the Caloric Content of Food Consumed away from Home : An Application to the Construction of a Cost-of-Basic-Needs Poverty Line