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 …

This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally … representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty … lead to poverty reduction for agricultural households …

In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania … introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates … subjective measures of household poverty. The analysis uses the nationally representative Albanian Living Standards Measurement …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to …

In much of the developing world, the demand for high frequency quality household data for poverty monitoring and … aggregates and poverty lines to measure poverty directly. This paper benefits from a shared listing exercise for two large …-scale national household surveys conducted in Liberia in 2007 to explore alternative methodologies to estimate poverty indirectly …

countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 … percent reduction in poverty and a 28 percent increase in the size of the middle class. However, chronic poverty remains high …