Absolute poverty: when necessity displaces desire

This paper proposes a new method for defining an international poverty line based on explicit budgeting. The novel feature is that linear programming is used to deduce the diet that minimizes cost and guarantees survival. Nonfood items are also explicitly budgeted and amount to about one quarter of...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Allen, R
Formáid: Working paper
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: University of Oxford 2016