Equivalence Scale and Poverty Assessment in a Poor Country

Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in assessing aggregate poverty tends to its overestimation. In the absence of reliable equivalence estimates, household size should be normalized to improve the estimation results.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	1992
Authors:	Balisacan, Arsenio M.
Institutions:	Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Government of the Philippines
Subject:	poverty \| econometric modeling

freely available

Full text |

More access options

Check Google Scholar

In German libraries (KVK)

I need help

More details

Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Philippine Journal of Development.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number JPD 1992 Vol. XIX No. 1-c 1 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184795