We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing … consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to missing panel household data. We focus on methods that aim to compare …

household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … income not by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is robust to …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … established. Means of household consumption estimated from surveys are, on average, 20 percentlower than corresponding means from … growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

regression ; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures ; NHANES …

Questions that often come up in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing include: what are … the best existing methods to obtain poverty estimates at a single snapshot in time? and over time? and what are the best … available methods to study poverty dynamics? A variety of different techniques have been developed to tackle these questions …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world.This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …