based on mobile phone data - processed with machine learning to predict beneficiary welfare - do not yield similar results … wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … absolute measures are seen to ignore important social effects on welfare, while popular strongly-relative measures ignore …

used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world …The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose error is plausibly independent of the measurement errors … study of PPP-adjusted estimates of GDP around the world between 1992 and 2010. First, we find that while market exchange … optimal. Using data from the Penn World Tables, we find that, indeed, it is optimal to only use the latest price data, and …