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Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico

Print version ISSN 2074-4706On-line version ISSN 2309-9038

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MENA, Gary  and  JIMENEZ, Wilson. Drawing the line: Estimating the basic food basket and poverty lines in Bolivia during the 1999 - 2012 period. rlde [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.111-148. ISSN 2074-4706.

To establish poverty line(s) is the most critical and hardest step in the measurement of poverty because it defines who is and is not poor. Bolivia’s official estimates are based on an outdated household survey which was constrained to the urban area only. In this paper we outline the assumptions made to construct basic food baskets for 5 domains and present results from the 2003-2004 expenditure income household survey based on the food energy intake methodology. Then we update the results for the 1999-2012 period using the prices from the Consumer Price Index survey and show the significant differences between the estimations for the urban and rural area as well as the differences with the international poverty line that is the reference for international poverty comparisons.

Keywords : Poverty lines; basic food basket; prices.

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