measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates.These estimates are not statistically different …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of "weights" based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …

The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure … 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates for the period 2001-2010 by imputing household expenditures into the … Labor Force Surveys. The results are encouraging. The methodology is able to accurately reproduce official poverty …