Many developing countries’ official poverty methodologies rely on nonstandard poverty lines, which complicate poverty comparisons across space or time. The paper considers the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt, whose official poverty lines have two important nonstandard features. First, the line is neither absolute nor relative, but rather hybrid or “weakly relative.” Second, the poverty line’s implicit equivalence scales are not fixed, but are rather...
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2023/05/08
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10437
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2023/05/08
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Implications of Using Nonstandard Poverty Lines : An Illustration Using the Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt