.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …

consensus that incidence of poverty with reference to the calorie intake criterion has declined since the mid-1970s to about 35 … assessments? What are its implications for the observed trends in poverty estimates in the context of dynamic structural changes … in the rural economy? The study concludes that the estimates do not show a real reduction in poverty but only a reduction …

deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …

substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …

evaluate recommendations made for redefining poverty measurement in that country. The recommendations were made in 1995 by the … US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on poverty measurement. In this paper these recommendations are reviewed and … the impact of implementing the recommendations on measures of inequality and poverty are examined. In conclusion, a …