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the five years from 1999-2000 to 2004-05, the food component of the CPIAL understated the rate of food price inflation …
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Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no or few observations are available. Census data are more plentiful, but typically exclude income and expenditure data. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area...
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What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, politically and statistically. The Indian debate has run parallel to, and is itself a large part of, the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the 1990s. The economic reforms of the early 1990s were followed by...
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This paper provides a non-technical account of poverty measurement at the local, national, and global levels. The political and scientific bases for measurement are discussed, as are the main strengths and weaknesses of the usual methods for poverty measurement
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the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history … of health, but for explaining aspects of current health, not only in comparing poor and rich countries, but in thinking … greater emphasis on the historical role of public health, and on the current and future role of improvements in medical …
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the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history … of health, but for explaining aspects of current health, not only in comparing poor and rich countries, but in thinking … greater emphasis on the historical role of public health, and on the current and future role of improvements in medical …
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