The Relevance of Poverty Measurement to Food Security Policy

Mahar Mangahas

Philippine Journal of Development, 1984

Abstract: While food security policies have been too frequently formulated, this article argues that the measurement of its incidence has not been on a regular basis. This study describes a number of concepts useful in poverty analysis and explains the great inertia or even positive resistance against new measurement. Nevertheless, the measures should conform to the presumed social bias in favor of the poor.

Keywords: food sector; poverty alleviation; poverty measurement; poverty incidence; food price stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.62986/pjd1984.11.2b

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