to measure aspirations, thereby limiting comparability of the results obtained. This paper proposes a simple measurement …

on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

from Colombia. Using a cross-entropy estimation method, we make efficient use of prior information about the structure of … variety of forms such as inequality constraints, errors in measurement, and prior estimates. Under weak assumptions about the … show that there is a large degree of upward mobility in Colombia, especially at the bottom of the income distribution and …

Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant … dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we … first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food security measurement system should satisfy. We then benchmark existing …

new approach to measuring trends in poverty and apply it to Tanzania in order to explore the distributional aspects of … economic growth and the relationship between rural poverty and market access. We find that, between 1991 and 2003, a period of … extensive economic reforms, the overall rate of poverty fell about 9 percentage points. The degree of poverty reduction was …

reliable empirical estimates of poverty levels has grown dramatically... This paper contributes to the poverty measurement …"With the focus of international development resources increasingly turned toward poverty reduction, the demand for … literature by introducing an information theoretic approach to assuring the utility consistency of poverty lines. Even though the …

attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems." Authors' Abstract …"The “Cost of Basic Needs” (CBN) approach to drawing consumption-based poverty lines is widely applied and lays … credible claim to being the best practice for estimating poverty measures. Unfortunately, a growing mass of evidence indicates …