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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …
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Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been …, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has … reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced …
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included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …
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and registry data on Syrian refugees living in Jordan and Lebanon to assess their poverty and vulnerability status … potential for alternative policies. Findings point to a complex situation. In the absence of humanitarian assistance, poverty is … extremely high among refugees. Current policies including cash transfers and food vouchers are effective in reducing poverty but …
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