Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages -- leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow … the pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … between 2001 and 2007. Multiple Correspondence Analysis provides two major advantages for the measurement of multidimensional …

This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty … to differences in poverty and inequality measures even when alternate poverty lines are used. This study underscores the … problem that many developing countries face when it comes to monitoring poverty indicators over time where different …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the … and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …

and social spending programs and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality. The paper also assesses the … income inequality and poverty. Moreover, these reductions are the largest achieved in the emerging market countries that have … so far been included in the Commitment to Equity project. Although fiscal policy is equalizing and poverty-reducing, the …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …