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Using Simple Cross-country Comparisons to Guide Measurement: Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone

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In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country’s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the world. This short dissemination note provides estimates of poverty for countries from the Franc CFA zone and shows how simple cross-country poverty comparisons were used to inform poverty measurement in these countries.

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  • Wodon, Quentin, 2007. "Using Simple Cross-country Comparisons to Guide Measurement: Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone," MPRA Paper 10482, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Christiaensen, Luc & Scott, Christopher & Wodon, Quentin, 2002. "Poverty Measurement and Analysis," MPRA Paper 45362, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Backiny-Yetna, Prospère & Wodon, Quentin & Mungai, Rose & Tsimpo, Clarence, 2010. "Pauvreté au Libéria : Niveau, profil, et corrélats en 2007 [Poverty in Liberia: Level, Profile, and Correlates in 2007]," MPRA Paper 34415, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Backiny-Yetna, Prospere & Wodon, Quentin & Mungai, Rose & Tsimpo, Clarence, 2012. "Poverty in Liberia: Level,Profile, and Determinants," MPRA Paper 38546, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Poverty; Franc CFA zone; cross-country comparisons;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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