Son, Hyun H. - In: Review of Economics & Finance 4 (2014) May, pp. 39-60
This paper measures the impact of price changes on poverty using the Philippines as an example. The impact of price … changes is captured by the price elasticity of poverty for three widely used poverty measures, namely, headcount ratio …, poverty gap ratio, and severity of poverty. An empirically operational price index called the price index for the poor is …