aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …