Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted … method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding household … budget or integrated survey over 12 months. Rather than measuring poverty only, say every 5th year, a model is presented to …

This paper examines the performance of a particular method for predicting poverty. The method is a supplement to the … approach of measuring poverty through a fully-fledged household expenditure survey. As most developing countries cannot justify … light surveys. Several applications have shown that this information, together with the poverty model, can produce poverty …

Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find … methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for predicting poverty, based upon … a statistical model utilizing consumption surveys and light annual surveys. A decade of poverty predictions and regular …

than previously thought, while chronic poverty remains substantial and transitory poverty is still very limited in South …

-weighted sum of expenditures that contain measurement errors. We derive a competing estimator, unbiased and variance minimizing …

lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …