larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site … earning dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because … other measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters …

Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure … surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the …

global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … compares current-method estimates with a constant-elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or … income not by household size but by the square root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …