This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and … public access to household budget surveys, the availability and timeliness of welfare data in the Middle East and North …

scale in household size – a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … compare current-method estimates with a constant- elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or …

/factors contributing to inequality in Nigeria over time. Leveraging data from the four waves of the Nigeria General Household Panel Survey …

that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

representative micro data on household consumption expenditures. We find that disadvantaged caste groups such as Other Backward …