Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire

被引:109
作者
Allen, Robert C. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] New York Univ Abu Dhabi, POB 129188, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates
[2] Univ Oxford Nuffield Coll, Oxford, England
关键词
POOR;
D O I
10.1257/aer.20161080
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
020101 [政治经济学];
摘要
A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for nonfood spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank's $1-a-day line because it is (i) clearly related to survival and well being; (ii) comparable across time and space since the same nutritional requirements are used everywhere while nonfood spending is tailored to climate; (iii) adjusts consumption patterns to local prices; (iv) presents no index number problems since solutions are always in local prices; and (v) requires only readily available information. The new approach implies much more poverty than the World Bank's, especially in Asia.
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页码:3690 / 3721
页数:32
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