Dadabhai Naoroji used menu for a prisoner and used appropriate prevailing prices to arrive at waht may be called 'jail - Economics - Unit III- Poverty

Question

Dadabhai Naoroji used menu for a prisoner and used appropriate
prevailing prices to arrive at waht may be called 'jail cost of
living' i don't get it?

Robin · Accepted Answer

he calculated poverty line on the basis of the menu of a
prisoner he then used the price of each item to calculate the
expenditure and this is called jail cost of living

Dadabhai Naoroji used menu for a prisoner and used appropriate prevailing prices to arrive at waht may be called 'jail cost of living'.i don't get it?