TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravallion, Martin ;
TI  - Poverty lines in theory and practice
SN  - 0821342266
U1  - 339.46 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Washington, DC : 
PB  - World Bank, 
KW  - Poverty -- Econometric models.
KW  - Poverty -- Statistical methods
KW  - Poverty.
KW  - Economic models
N2  - A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. This paper offers a critical overview of alternative approaches to setting poverty lines. In reviewing the methods found in practice, the paper tries to throw light on, and go some way toward resolving, ongoing debates about poverty measurement, emphasizing those debates which would appear to have greatest bearing on policy discussions
ER  -