Equivalence Scale and Poverty Assessment in a Poor Country

Arsenio Balisacan

Philippine Journal of Development, 1992

Abstract: Mainly due to the dearth of available data, this article empirically illustrates that the practice of using household expenditures/incomes in assessing aggregate poverty tends to its overestimation. In the absence of reliable equivalence estimates, household size should be normalized to improve the estimation results.

Keywords: poverty; econometric modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.62986/pjd1992.19.1c

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