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 …

different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …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 …

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. …

to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …

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 …

nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty … poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines … appear to be affected by substantial measurement errors, which severely distort the official poverty statistics. The paper …

), 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 …

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 … regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a … household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The …