Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social inclusion. That assumption is inconsistent with evidence on the social roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty...
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INFORMATION
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2009/02/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4844
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Weakly relative poverty
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national poverty line