Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or …-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution.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 … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption … to induce many eligible households to participate, and find positive effects on consumption. -- Program evaluation … ; consumption ; matching ; Oportunidades …