standards and for using it to measure poverty and inequality. It goes on to discuss the principal uses to which consumption data …

problems with the current $1-a-day poverty counts, makes some suggestions for improvement, and identifies issues that need … further research. World poverty numbers are calculated in two stages. At the first, or international stage, a world poverty … line is set and used to derive comparable poverty lines for each country. At the second, or domestic stage, the poverty …

constructed from survey data have been used to measure poverty, to analyse changes in living standards, over time, and to assess …

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing … countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher fraction of children are in poverty than are … adults. However, it is difficult to make even simple poverty comparisons of this sort. A perennial difficulty is the passage …

rural development, such as food security and the reduction of poverty and the number of food-insecure households, is being … this working paper provide an analysis of the current status and suggest future policy directions for poverty reduction … made in rural and agricultural development and poverty alleviation. Part 1 and 2 directly address food security and poverty …

policies and programmes addressing rural poverty through agriculture in member countries. Also it aimed to strengthen regional …