Poverty Assessment Study - GlobalGiving

The resulting overall poverty rate was slightly higher (up by less than 2 percent) than those originally estimated by the 2002 World Bank report using the 2000 HIECS (LE 1018 per capita p.a., compared to LE 999 reported in World Bank (2002)), indicating that in terms of utility the new 2005 poverty basket is likely to be preferable to the 2000 ... ................
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