Son, Hyun H.; Kakwani, Nanak - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006
This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of … changes in price on poverty is explained in terms of two components. The first component is the income effect of the change in …