Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the Engel curves are linear for any realization of prices. This is very stringent. However, it may...
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2020/07/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS9312
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2020/07/01
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Disclosed
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Should Consumption Sub-Aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty ?
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development research group
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