49 research outputs found
Poverty and 'Second Economy' in South Africa: An Attempt to Clarify Applicable Concepts and Quantify Extent of Relevant Challenges
In brief, the paper firstly summarises old and new theoretical and technical issues on measuring poverty, secondly analyses poverty from different perspectives and highlights various research findings on poverty trends in South Africa and thirdly clarifies the notion of "second economy" and attempts to "measure" it
Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
Poverty and household size
The widely held view that larger families tend to be poorer in developing countries has influenced research and policy. The scope for size economies in consumption cautions against this view. The authors find that the correlation between poverty and size vanishes in Pakistan when the size elasticity of the cost of living is about 0-6. This turns out to be the elasticity implied by a modified version of the food share method of setting scales. By contrast, some measures of child nutritional status indicate an elasticity of unity. Consideration of the weight attached to child versus adult welfare may help resolve the non-robustness of demographic profiles of poverty. -Author
Poverty in Rural Ethiopia 1989–95: Evidence from Household Panel Data in Selected Villages
The measurement of transient poverty: Theory and application to Pakistan
chronic poverty, poverty measurement, prudence, risk, transient poverty,