A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The majority of developing … countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line determined by the monetary cost of a predetermined basket of … goods. In contrast, most analyses of poverty in advanced countries, including the majority of OECD countries and Eurostat …

This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …

This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …