The effect of demographics on poverty measurement based on per capita consumption is well known. The size and … household. Failure to address this issue may often lead to an underestimation or overestimation of poverty, especially for … structures and choice of the pivot household for establishing the per capita poverty line. Based on the World Bank's African …

-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty) and urban pull factors …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

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 …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …