), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … on 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the …

The state of Bahia, Brazil has made progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators in the past decade …. Despite this progress, Bahia's poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are among the lowest in Brazil …. Currently, 41 percent of Bahia's population live in households below the poverty level, a drop of 14 percentage points since …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s … rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth … represents 10-50 percent of the trend rate of poverty reduction. …

The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of "weights" based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …

This paper reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to monetary poverty measurement. The … arguments for combining both approaches into a single "overall” monetary poverty measure are introduced. The most salient … proposals of hybrid poverty lines are presented. Then, the reasons why specific poverty indices may be required when a hybrid …