difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires … estimated poverty headcount was twice as high. There is evidence of survey fatigue occurring early in phone interviews but not …

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

rate in Mozambique stagnated between 2002/03 and 2008/09. -- measurement ; poverty ; growth ; inequality ; economy …Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile …

We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using … estimates produce qualitatively very similar results. We conclude that the principal conclusions of the poverty assessments are …

found. Finally, I argue that poverty estimation based on national account consumption means and estimates of inequality from … decline of poverty over time, but the magnitude of the adjustment is country- and year-specific. …

For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which … approach to thoroughly measure poverty. This paper is an attempt to assess the state and evolution of multidimensional poverty …. However, there need to be more efforts to reduce the gap in poverty headcount ratios among Kinh and non-Kinh groups …