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Determination of a poverty line in HaitiCarried out in November 2001, the project developed a poverty line for
Haiti based on data from household income and expenditure surveys of 1986/87
and 1999/2000. The method used was to calculate the nutritional value
of a food basket derived from the household expenditure surveys, and then
estimate an absolute poverty line as the expenditure needed to obtain
a diet that fulfil the energy needs. To this was then added the value
of non-food expenditures at the poverty line. Using this method it was
found that poverty in Haiti appears to have decreased between 1987 and
2000: The percentage of the population below the poverty line was 59 in
1987 and 48 in 2000. UNDP (Haiti) financed the project. Researchers
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