Should-Read: This seems to me to be a significant improvement in productivity measurement: Robert C. Allen: Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire: “A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming… …for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World … Continue reading Should-Read: Robert C. Allen: Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire