We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to … to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades …

explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …