This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …

vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability using pseudo panel …Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study conceives …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because of … measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters recovered from … this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel data. …

nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty … statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and … poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines …

analysis finds beneficial spillover and inter-generational impacts of education: affected girls enjoyed higher household living …