The most labour-intensive task in building a poverty profile consists in the estimation of the poverty lines. Does it matter whether poverty lines are estimated for the urban and rural sectors as a whole or by geographical area within each sector? Using a decomposition of the Gini index of inequality in poverty measures, it is shown that it does, but not too much in Bangladesh.
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Wodon, Q. T. (1999). Regional poverty lines, poverty profiles, and targeting. Applied Economics Letters, 6(12), 809–812. https://doi.org/10.1080/135048599352222
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