Friday 29 April 2016

Pakistan's new poverty estimate (Syed Mohammad Ali, South Asia Monitor)

Poverty is easy enough to recognize by those who experience its multidimensional deprivations on a daily basis, or even by those who invariably confront its glaring pervasiveness. However, measuring poverty is not as straightforward as we might think. The number of poor people can shrink or expand drastically by changing the definition of what it means to be poor.

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=16653

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