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Explain “jail cost of living.

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Jail cost of living: Various attempts have been made to develop a scale to measure poverty. Dadabhai Naoroji was the first to measure poverty. He used the 'jail cost of living” to measure the poverty line. He used the menu for a prisoner and used appropriate prevailing prices to arrive at the cost of consumption of an adult prisoner.

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