. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable … good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period …. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow poverty reduction and an increase in inequality, while in the second …

Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis …, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price … index and 2014/15 household budged survey data, we calculate that the cost of purchasing a basic basket may have risen …

difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires …The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over …

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 …, particularly the head-count ratio, and household attributes. Given that the recentered influence function of these measures is also …

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 …

enhancing inputs at the household level, a relational view of poverty suggests the need to address counter-productive relations … the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty …