The paper estimates inequality and absolute poverty in Egypt for 1997 with measures that are robust to sample design … being significantly poorer, but significant differences in poverty were not found between Upper and Lower Egypt. This … bootstrap approach which replicates the sample design. Standard errors for poverty indices are corrected for the design effects …

We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …

-being. Using the Current Population Survey from 1989 to 2001, we consider the impact of food stamps on three measures of poverty … - the headcount, the poverty gap, and the squared poverty gap. These measures portray the incidence, depth, and severity of … poverty. We find that in comparison to the headcount measure, food stamp benefits lead to large reductions in the poverty gap …