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A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries

In: The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’

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  • Satya R. Chakravarty
  • Nachiketa Chattopadhyay
  • Jacques Silber

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This chapter estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an ‘amalgam poverty line’, which is a weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty line, namely 100 percent, 90 percent, 66 percent and 50 percent. The chapter provides estimates of the headcount ratio and poverty gap ratio under the various scenarios for 25 different countries or regions examined.

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  • Satya R. Chakravarty & Nachiketa Chattopadhyay & Jacques Silber, 2016. "A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries," Chapters, in: Jacques Silber & Guanghua Wan (ed.), The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’, chapter 2, pages 30-50, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:17203_2
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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