@article{Cranfield:331549,
      recid = {331549},
      author = {Cranfield, J.A.L. and Preckel, Paul V. and Hertel, Thomas  W.},
      title = {Poverty Analysis Using An International Cross-Country  Demand System},
      address = {2006},
      pages = {43},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Presented at the 10th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Purdue University, USA},
      abstract = {This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of  the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three  innovations underlie this approach. The first is the  estimation of a global demand system using a combination of  micro-data from household surveys, and macro-data from the  International Comparisons Project. The second innovation  relates to a methodology for postestimation calibration of  the global demand system, giving rise to country specific  demand systems and an associated expenditure function  which, when aggregated across the expenditure distribution,  reproduce observed per capita budget shares exactly. The  third innovation is use of the calibrated expenditure  function to calculate the change in the head-count of  poverty, poverty gap and squared poverty gap arising from  policy reforms, where the poverty measures are derived  using a unique poverty level of utility, rather than an  income or expenditure-based measure. We employ these  techniques with a demand system for food, other  non-durables and services estimated using a combination of  1996 ICP data set and national expenditure distribution  data. To illustrate the usefulness of these calibrated  models for policy analysis, we assess the impacts of an  assumed five percent food price rise as might be following  a multilateral trade agreement.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331549},
}