Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

.6 percent nationally. The implied poverty elasticity with respect to growth in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is within …This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … the range of past experience, and states with higher gross domestic product growth saw greater predicted poverty …