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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines - About the Philippines

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Because local pro-poor organizations may want to use different or variouspoverty lines, this paper calibrates scores from its single scorecard to poverty likelihoods<strong>for</strong> eight lines:• National• Food• USAID “extreme”• USD1.25/day 2005 PPP• USD2.50/day 2005 PPP• USD3.75/day 2005 PPP• USD5.00/day 2005 PPP• USD4.32/day 1993 PPP 7The USAID “extreme” line is defined as <strong>the</strong> median income of people (nothouseholds) below <strong>the</strong> national line (U.S. Congress, 2002).The USD1.25/day line (2005 PPP) is derived from:• 2005 PPP exchange rate <strong>for</strong> “individual consumption expenditure by households”: 8PHP24.18 per USD1.00• National Consumer Price Index (CPI) <strong>for</strong> July 2002 (110.2) and July 2004 (121.8) 9• Average national CPI in 2005: 129.87The USD4.32/day 1993 PPP line is presented to provide backward compatibility withan earlier paper in which this was <strong>the</strong> main international line.8http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ICPINT/Resources/icp-final-tables.pdf,accessed February 6, 2009.9http://www.census.gov.ph/data/sectordata/tscpimon.htm, accessed January 27,2009.5

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