This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and … North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … public access to household budget surveys, the availability and timeliness of welfare data in the Middle East and North …

household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a …

international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data … monetary measures of household welfare. The results further show that current migrants are more likely to send remittance … payments when household members have deteriorating life satisfaction and/or subjective reports of worsening economic conditions …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … using household survey data. Poorer households are more likely to be affected by floods; directly affected households are …

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … the growing share of the population that faced a risk of poverty within a year (going in and out of poverty). Household … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …