, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 …. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic … minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show … how repeated cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty …