After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper … (2010) by considering heteroscedasticity and includes survey weights, but uses a different bootstrap approach, here referred … to as clustered bootstrap. Simulation experiments comparing these methods to the original EB approach of Molina and Rao …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

suggests it is context and method specific. Although changes in poverty and inequality are always statistically significant …

of several poverty maps …

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 … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is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 …

internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …