the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …

and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to … methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

across states to that of primary roads can yield a reduction in poverty from the rate of 51.7 percent in 2009 to between 42 …

typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty …. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of poverty when the time to conduct interviews is a binding …, the approach is demonstrated to yield reliable estimates of per capita consumption and poverty using data from a regular …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more …