Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty … from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions …, little attention has been paid to poverty line settings and subjective poverty, which are hinged to the policy effects. In …

examines whether, and to what degree, indicators of material deprivation, subjective poverty and subjective well-being are …