Datt, Gaurav; Jolliffe, Dean; Sharma, Manohar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
This paper presents a profile of poverty in Egypt for 1997. It assesses the magnitude of poverty and its distribution … heterogeneity among the poor, and helps identify empirical correlates of poverty. The poverty profile is constructed using data from … the Ministry of Trade and Supply. Reference poverty lines that take into account regional differences in food and nonfood …