Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …

intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is …

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 …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

food away from home. A household survey experiment was implemented in Hanoi, Vietnam, to test these different methods … considered-including asking about consumption in one line (the existing practice in Vietnam) or asking each individual about … limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …