ESA Working Paper No. 04-12
Being Poor, Feeling Poorer:
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Agricultural and Development Economics Division |
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ABSTRACT As shown empirically for many transition economies,
even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence
scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of
poverty and its distribution across households and individuals. Since
such exercises are then used to orient and prioritize policy actions
(e.g. the targeting of scarce social assistance resources) it is important
to refine our understanding of the extent to which poverty measures
and the resulting profiles are sensitive to specific assumptions. In
this paper we investigate how combining objective and subjective measures
of welfare can provide insights that are helpful in addressing these
questions, particularly with respect to the |
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