Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis

Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand equations. Such proxies are often needed because...

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Main Authors: Gibson, John, Rozelle, Scott
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/17747626/prices-unit-values-poverty-measurement-tax-reform-analysis
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16485