This paper assesses the reliability of poverty maps derived from remote-sensing data. Employing data for Malawi, it … first obtains small area estimates of poverty by combining the Malawi household expenditure survey from 2010/11 with unit … record population census data from 2008. It then ignores the population census data and obtains a second poverty map for …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare … poverty measures and lower for inequality measures. …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of … so on. Yet the paper demonstrates that in all three countries the poverty estimates produced from census data are both …