The Robustness of Poverty Profiles Reconsidered

Tarp, Finn; Simler, Kenneth; Matusse, Cristina; Heltberg, Rasmus; Dava, Gabriel

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“…It is not uncommon for poverty analyses based on the FEI method, where separate poverty lines are calculated, to indicate higher poverty rates in urban than in rural areas. At a given level of income, urban households tend to consume fewer, but more expensive, calories (Tarp et al 2002). Therefore, higher calorie consumption in rural areas is not an uncommon result, and has been found in other similar empirical studies (Hoddinott and Yohannes 2002;Skoufias 2001).…”

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2 Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

Migotto¹,

Davis²,

Carletto³

et al. 2007

Food Security

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Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both 'qualitative-subjective' and 'quantitative-objective' indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjectivetype information is scarce, especially using representative household surveys. The aim of this paper is to compare information on self-perceived food consumption adequacy from the subjective modules of household surveys with standard quantitative indicators, namely calorie consumption, dietary diversity and anthropometry. Datasets from four countries are analysed: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and multivariate regression show that the 'subjective' indicator is at best poorly correlated with standard quantitative indicators. The paper concludes that while subjective food adequacy indicators may provide insight on the …/.

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Section: Caloric Availabilitysupporting

confidence: 59%

2 Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

Migotto¹,

Davis²,

Carletto³

et al. 2007

Food Security

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“…Because consumption baskets used to measure absolute poverty in developing countries ideally reflect consumption patterns of the poor (Deaton 1998;Ravallion and Bidani 1994), steps are increasingly taken to account for these variations (Arndt and Simler 2010). Indeed, under the costs of basic needs approach, failure to account for the specific consumption patterns of the poor can lead to erroneous conclusions about poverty levels and trends (Tarp et al 2002;Günther and Grimm 2007).…”

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When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique

2015

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Changes in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups. Using Mozambican household budget survey and price data from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show that once relative price increases are accounted for, inequality of real consumption increases substantially. We obtain this result by constructing a price deflator that reflects divergent price dynamics of different product categories. Since the main factors driving this result prevail in other developing countries, it is likely that inequality may be underestimated elsewhere.

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“…Although official poverty estimates have always been reported at a regional level in Malawi, region-specific poverty lines were last constructed using the first IHS1 of 1997/98 (NSO 2010b; also see Mukherjee and Benson 2003). Taking account of 13 regional and temporal differences in prices and preferences, as we do in this study, is likely to alter estimated poverty lines significantly (Tarp et al 2002). Source: Generated by IFPRI GIS analysts using data from Global Administrative Areas (2012).…”

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Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawi’s Poverty Puzzle

Pauw¹,

Beck²,

Mussa³

2016

Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme from the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Terms of use: Documents inThe World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) was established by the United Nations University (UNU) as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world.UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, 00160 Helsinki, Finland, wider.unu.eduThe views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s). Publication does not imply endorsement by the Institute or the United Nations University, nor by the programme/project sponsors, of any of the views expressed.Abstract: Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially and temporally while ensuring utility consistency. Our poverty figures suggest a substantial 7.3 percentage point decrease in national poverty over the analysis period, driven largely by a sharp reduction in rural poverty. These results are more consistent with the observed level of economic growth and improvements in several non-monetary dimensions of well-being. However, we find that extreme poverty did increase, suggesting that the most vulnerable people continue to be excluded from the benefits of economic policy and growth.

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The Robustness of Poverty Profiles Reconsidered

Cited by 69 publications

References 17 publications

2 Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

2 Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique

Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawi’s Poverty Puzzle

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