the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

poverty trends in Sri Lanka between 2006 and 2009. Survey-to-survey imputation methods rely on two key assumptions: (i) that … large share of the intertemporal change in household expenditure and poverty. In addition, differences in sampling design … adequately capture changes in poverty. The paper concludes that in Sri Lanka, survey-to-survey imputation between the Household …