rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …

Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to … meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19 …, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in …

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 …

limited analysis can be conducted on the implications for poverty, the study finds that the profiles of the poorest households …

Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure … questions about the consistency of the poverty-tracking efforts currently applied across countries, since obtaining exhaustive …

and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …

and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …

There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …