October 3, 2025

The Relevance of Poverty Measurement to Food Security Policy

GSGerardo P. SicatUniversity of the Philippines System

Key Points

Poverty measurement significantly influences food security policy, highlighting areas needing attention and improvement.
Critical analysis reveals the inertia in implementing new measurement practices, limiting their effectiveness in addressing poverty.
Existing measures often align with a social bias favoring the poor, affecting their acceptance and implementation in policies.
Regular and accurate measurement of poverty incidence is essential to foster effective food security policies.

Abstract

While food security policies have been too frequently formulated, this article argues that the measurement of its incidence has not been on a regular basis. This study describes a number of concepts useful in poverty analysis and explains the great inertia or even positive resistance against new measurement. Nevertheless, the measures should conform to the presumed social bias in favor of the poor.

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Gerardo P. Sicat (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e03509f0e39f13e7fa4317 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.62986/pjd1984.11.2b