Subjective poverty and affluence in the Philippines
Surveys of self-rated poverty, done in the Philippines at the national level 56 times over 1983-2001, quarterly since 1992, demonstrate that poverty is volatile even in the short run. The self-rated poor are about twice as many as the poor officially defined. The official poverty line meets the subj...
| Published in: | The Philippine Review of Business and Economics Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2 (December 2001), p. [122]-134. |
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| Format: | Analytics |
| Language: | English |
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2001.
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