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 …

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 …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty in rural Malawi. This study … 2010 two-fifths of all households had a chance of at least 40 percent of falling below the poverty line in the future. The … results show that many households in rural Malawi are vulnerable to poverty, although, as with many other studies of rural …

The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since …

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 …

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

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 …

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression …-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from … Poverty Scorecard is as good as any of the regression-based estimators. The findings change, however, when the regression …