The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying … conditions that have been argued to be essential for the method, confidence intervals for the poverty estimates also appear to be …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare … poverty measures and lower for inequality measures. …

This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 …. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic … minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …