.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 …

This paper provides a non-technical account of poverty measurement at the local, national, and global levels. The … poverty measurement … political and scientific bases for measurement are discussed, as are the main strengths and weaknesses of the usual methods for …

reforms. Although this paper is concerned with the measurement of poverty in India, all of the issues - discrepancies between …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 …

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 … from household surveys that predict variables not covered by the census. These methods are used to estimate putatively …

the use of representative household surveys versus national accounts for poverty measurement. Although significant … paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It …Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This …

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …

. To a considerable extent, the failure of world poverty to fall in the face of world growth is a failure of household … around the world. They are the raw material in the debate on whether or not world growth reduces world poverty. This paper … discusses how the poverty estimates are constructed, and asks whether they can bear the burden placed on them. One specific …

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …