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 …

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 …

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 … between 2001 and 2007. Multiple Correspondence Analysis provides two major advantages for the measurement of multidimensional …

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 …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban … Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line (covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness checks show that …

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 …

This paper proposes monetary poverty and inequality estimates for Kinshasa using a new Kinshasa household survey … shows that poverty and inequality increased significantly during 2012-18 in Kinshasa. Poverty has increased in the city by …