poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of … regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a … household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the $1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a 2014 …

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 …

household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues … incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and …

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

prediction of poverty, random forest is rarely used. Comparing out-of-sample predictions in surveys for same year in six … selected by stepwise and Lasso), suggesting that this method could contribute to better poverty predictions. However, none of … the methods consistently provides accurate predictions of poverty over time, highlighting that technical model fitting by …

to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …

and temporally consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight … measurement is a challenge and household expenditure surveys vary widely across many dimensions, including the level of reporting … reporting accuracy by household characteristics are also discussed and differences in measured poverty as a result of survey …

overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …