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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...
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equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia … Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Our analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household demographic …
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The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...
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. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and …. We find that policies targeting individual household members are most effective for improving learning activities … household head employment with learning activities for almost all the countries. …
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Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …
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, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of cross-sectional data, the absence of household panel survey …
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Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle …, household assets and housing, yield accurate predictions. Imputation accuracy is robust to varying survey questionnaire length …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or …-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household … results. Adding either household utility expenditures or food expenditures to basic imputation models with household …
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we do not find significant program effects on household welfare (as measured by per capita income and poverty) and local … provides to participating households. We also find that the program increases household access to electricity, public transfer …
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