, poverty is estimated to increase by about 2.9 percentage points, with the direct impact accounting for a third of this … the poorest bottom 50 percent of the population and reduce poverty to below pre-reform levels. The annual cost of the …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …

This poverty diagnostic documents changes in welfare and living standards in the West Bank and Gaza over the period … 2011 to 2017. Since the last poverty assessment for these territories, in 2011, the economic constraints facing them have … worsened. The 2011 poverty assessment covered the period from 2004 to 2009, spanning the end of the second Intifada, as well as …

standards), based on which official poverty estimates are estimated for the Palestinian territories. The 2016 PECS was … internal discussions and debate on improving the poverty measurement methodology, by taking advantage of newly available data … of the official poverty estimation methodology with the aim of informing and improving poverty measurement going forward …

This technical report describes the methodology and data used to produce small area poverty estimates for the … challenges in estimating poverty at the locality level. The third section discusses selection of the best model, its performance … and conducts validation exercises. The fourth section shows poverty and inequality estimates for different levels …

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 … and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …

This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran … after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed … estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran: increase in poverty and inequality between …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …