This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

geographically comprehensive geospatial indicators to generate small area estimates of non-monetary poverty. The preferred estimates … estimates are highly correlated with non-monetary poverty calculated from the full census in both countries, and the gain in … of non-monetary poverty at comparatively low cost …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world …. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by … measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And …