welfare measures such as the poverty headcount rate, collecting such data requires significant time and effort. In this study …, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … are i) consumption correlates model, ii) poverty probability model, and iii) the wealth index Principal Components …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

This paper decomposes changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components, and employs several pro-poor growth … concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … for other factors to account for around two-fifths of total household expenditure inequality in Indonesia. If poverty …

poverty reduction at the regional level, with a particular emphasis on the role of decentralization. Over the past decade … Indonesia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, from 23% of the population in 1999 to less than 12% in 2013 …. However, substantial differences in regional poverty are observed. In this paper, we discuss the factors that drive the …

in household composition is not a major cause of chronic poverty. Similarly, it finds no evidence that households change … household compositions imply that the use of household as the unit of analysis for poverty may undermine, or at least complicate …, the conceptualization and measurement of chronic poverty. This also implies that the problem of targeting social …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …