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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 $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 …
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error distributions. The application presented in this paper is the small area estimation of poverty and inequality …, although this denotes by no means the only application. Monte-Carlo simulations show that estimates of poverty and inequality … poverty rate of 20 to 30 percent. Most of this bias is resolved when using the proposed estimator. The approach is applicable …
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This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …
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There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for … that other factors need to be considered when quantifying the extent of poverty and informing policy making for fighting … poverty. However, the author argues that there are two poorly understood issues in assessing these indices. First, does one …
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The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …
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Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty … USAID poverty assessment tool and base data are used for demonstration of these methods; however, the methods applied in … this paper should be considered for PMT and other poverty-targeting tool development more broadly …
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This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are … of poverty outcomes over time. It presents the various methods under a common framework, with pedagogical discussion on …
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measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …
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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 …
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As well acknowledged in the literature, housing is often the dominant consumption good for most households. As such, it should be included in a comprehensive welfare aggregate to measure people's living standards accurately. However, assigning a value to the flow of the dwelling for homeowners...
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