Poverty measurement under income and price dispersion

Christophe Muller

Chapter 14 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 151-160 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses facts, methods and empirical results that pertain to poverty measurement under income and price dispersions. The correlation of prices and living standards is examined, and its sources are considered, whether they are related to consumer preferences, economic interactions and market imperfections. Then, the relationship of price dispersion and aggregate social indicators - including poverty measures - is analyzed by combining stochastic hypotheses about prices and incomes with normative properties of social and poverty indicators. Finally, empirical results about how dispersed heterogeneous price indices affect poverty measurement, anti-poverty targeting and poverty-alleviation price reforms are reviewed.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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