Holdings: Using Simple Cross-Country Comparisons to Guide Measurement : Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone

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Using Simple Cross-Country Comparisons to Guide Measurement : Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone

In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country's poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the world....

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Main Author:	Wodon, Quentin
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE BASIC NEEDS BASIC NEEDS METHOD CONSUMER PRICE INDICES CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION LEVEL CONSUMPTION PATTERNS CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COST OF FOOD CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FOOD BASKET FOOD BUNDLE FOOD BUNDLES FOOD COMPONENT FOOD COMPONENTS FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURE FOOD EXPENDITURES FOOD ITEM FOOD POVERTY FOOD POVERTY LINE FOOD POVERTY LINES FOOD PRICES GDP GLOBAL POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY LEVEL OF POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NON-FOOD COMPONENTS NON-FOOD CONSUMPTION NON-FOOD ITEMS NUTRITIONAL NEEDS NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OVERALL POVERTY LINE POOR POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENTS POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY DATA POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LEVEL POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PRICE INFORMATION PROTEIN REGIONAL FOOD REGIONAL FOOD POVERTY LINE REGIONAL POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY LINES RELATIVE POVERTY LINE RICHER COUNTRIES SUBSISTENCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WIDESPREAD POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/10/8609509/using-simple-cross-country-comparisons-guide-measurement-poverty-cfa-franc-zone http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9551

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/10/8609509/using-simple-cross-country-comparisons-guide-measurement-poverty-cfa-franc-zone
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9551