Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity … technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased …. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …

This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is …

poverty trends in Sri Lanka between 2006 and 2009. Survey-to-survey imputation methods rely on two key assumptions: (i) that … large share of the intertemporal change in household expenditure and poverty. In addition, differences in sampling design … adequately capture changes in poverty. The paper concludes that in Sri Lanka, survey-to-survey imputation between the Household …

poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation …

progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …