measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

-response, it only includes 2,476 participating households. Poverty numbers presented in this note are not comparable with poverty … also due to differences in the methodology for constructing welfare aggregate and the poverty line. All regional estimates …

evidence on changes in overlapping deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional poverty. It assesses the … overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and … urban areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia's multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of "ending extreme poverty." However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as "data deprivation," because …

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world …. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by … measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And …