Using Simple Cross-Country Comparisons to Guide Measurement : Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone

Using Simple Cross-Country Comparisons to Guide Measurement : Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone

In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country's poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the world....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wodon, Quentin
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE
BASIC NEEDS
BASIC NEEDS METHOD
CONSUMER PRICE INDICES
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION LEVEL
CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
COST OF FOOD
CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
FOOD BASKET
FOOD BUNDLE
FOOD BUNDLES
FOOD COMPONENT
FOOD COMPONENTS
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD EXPENDITURE
FOOD EXPENDITURES
FOOD ITEM
FOOD POVERTY
FOOD POVERTY LINE
FOOD POVERTY LINES
FOOD PRICES
GDP
GLOBAL POVERTY
HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
LEVEL OF POVERTY
MEASURING POVERTY
METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
NON-FOOD COMPONENTS
NON-FOOD CONSUMPTION
NON-FOOD ITEMS
NUTRITIONAL NEEDS
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
OVERALL POVERTY LINE
POOR
POORER HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY ASSESSMENTS
POVERTY COMPARISONS
POVERTY DATA
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LEVEL
POVERTY LEVELS
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY MONITORING
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
PRICE INFORMATION
PROTEIN
REGIONAL FOOD
REGIONAL FOOD POVERTY LINE
REGIONAL POVERTY
REGIONAL POVERTY LINES
RELATIVE POVERTY LINE
RICHER COUNTRIES
SUBSISTENCE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WIDESPREAD POVERTY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/10/8609509/using-simple-cross-country-comparisons-guide-measurement-poverty-cfa-franc-zone
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9551

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