food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … considered -- including asking about consumption in one line (the existing practice in Vietnam) or asking each individual about … in a survey. Although limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the …

at small geographic units. Using a commune-level dataset from Vietnam, it compares the performance of commonly used …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

by investigating the link between internal displacement and multidimensional poverty, using one of the most comprehensive … household surveys for poverty analysis in Iraq. The results show crucial differences between internally displaced and non …-displaced households with respect to multidimensional poverty. Furthermore, instrumental variable regression analysis suggests that the …

The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to … commonly used poverty nowcasting methods and ranks their performance by comparing country-specific and regional poverty … nowcasts with actual poverty estimates for 2003?14 period. The validation results show that the two bottom-up approaches, which …