, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …

Poverty estimates based on cross-section data provide static snapshots of poverty rates. Although a time series of … cross-section data can offer some insights into poverty trends, it does not allow for an assessment of dynamics at the … household level. Such a dynamic perspective on poverty generally calls for panel data and this kind of analysis can usefully …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis … poverty and the middle class have been falling and expanding, respectively, while the opposite has been occurring in the …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 …. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic … minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but …

Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However … response, poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been developed … assumption that cannot usually be tested directly. This study analyzes the performance of poverty prediction models based on …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show … how repeated cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty …

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the … and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …