Replication data for: Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Robert C. Allen

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Allen, Robert C. Replication data for: Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113150V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms World Bank; poverty; purchasing power parity; poverty line
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C61 Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
      I14 Health and Inequality
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage world
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2011 – 2011
Universe:  View help for Universe countries
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes data available from World Bank

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source World Bank, International Comparison Project
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation countries,

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