Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

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 …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation … demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose …

We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework … data from Vietnam. Furthermore, we also offer a practical guide with detailed instructions on computer programs that can be …

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 abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …

demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …