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 …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

even though monetary poverty was (i) high in Nigeria in 2019 and (ii) very heterogeneously distributed across Nigerian …Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have …

Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent … health spending has also increased and, in 2012, out-of-pocket spending on health added 1.5 percentage points to the poverty …-containment—are to be applauded. Between 2008 and 2013, self-reported health insurance coverage increased across all quintiles and its …