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Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been …, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has … reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced …
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poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …
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and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to … methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 …
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and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …
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Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more …
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