Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This … paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It … opens with a critical review of the different procedures to establish poverty lines and the various measures of poverty …

.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …

What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, politically and statistically. The Indian … debate has run parallel to, and is itself a large part of, the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the 1990s. The …. The effects on poverty remain controversial, and the official numbers published by the Government of India, showing a …

This paper provides a non-technical account of poverty measurement at the local, national, and global levels. The … poverty measurement …

Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no …. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area "poverty maps" based on census data enriched by relationships estimated … precise estimates of poverty and inequality for areas as small as 20,000 households. In this paper we argue that to usefully …