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

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

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 …

and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to … methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity … technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased …. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …

across states to that of primary roads can yield a reduction in poverty from the rate of 51.7 percent in 2009 to between 42 …

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 …

This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is …