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 …

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 …

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 …

Poverty estimates based on enumeration from a single point in time form the cornerstone for much of the literature on … poverty. Households are typically interviewed once about their consumption or income, and their wellbeing is assessed from … their responses. Global estimates of poverty that aggregate poverty counts from all countries implicitly assume that the …

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the … and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …

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 …