The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …