people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … welfare as a fully formal portfolio. By assessing transitions between household portfolios with panel data for urban Nigeria …

measurement of poverty when switching from a static and certain to a dynamic and uncertain framework. The numerous proposed … measures of multi-period poverty and vulnerability have until now not taken into account the insights from behavioural … economics. Building on reference dependent utility models we propose a new measure of both (perceived) multi-period poverty and …

estimate bias attributable to intergenerational poverty descents. Using simple experiments and data from India, poverty …

poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …