The Effect of Regional Price Adjustment of Household Expenditures on Poverty Indices in Iran’s Urban Areas

Javad Arab Yarmohamadi, Esmaiel Abounoori and Ali Asghar Salem
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Javad Arab Yarmohamadi: Semnan University
Ali Asghar Salem: Allameh Tabataba'i University

Journal of Money and Economy, 2016, vol. 11, issue 2, 119-134

Abstract: Accurate Measuring of poverty and its distribution in various areas, in addition to being crucial for cognitive purposes, could have different policy implications and affect policy assessments. The Household expenditures criteria is typically used to measure poverty, and poverty is often assessed using a poverty line and alternative indices. A major difficulty

Keywords: Sen Index; Watt Index; FGT Measures; Price Index; First Order Stochastic Dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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