Prices for Poverty Analysis in Africa

Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of approaches...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaddis, Isis
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26280299/prices-poverty-analysis-africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24226