Prices, Engel Curves, and Time-Space Deflation : Impacts on Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam

Many developing countries lack spatially disaggregated price data. Some analysts use “no-price” methods by using a food Engel curve to derive the deflator as that needed for nominally similar households to have equal food shares in all regions and time periods. This method cannot be tested in countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gibson, John, Le, Trinh, Kim, Bonggeun
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30962