Saturday, July 5, 2014

A fresh poverty line

........There is another issue. Poverty-level income (or expenditure) should be measured on the basis of households, not individuals - because the spending unit is the household, not the individual. A five-member family would find it easier to manage on Rs 10,000 per month than a two-member family on Rs 4,000, though both households have the same level of per capita income. But data matching income or expenditure to size of household do not exist, and will have to be worked out. The subsequent task of enumerating...........

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