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The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … between 2001 and 2007. Multiple Correspondence Analysis provides two major advantages for the measurement of multidimensional … provides a natural approach for constructing a composite welfare indicator that satisfies essential poverty ordering axioms …
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the focus is on head-count poverty, the method can be applied to any welfare indicator that is a function of household …
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Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202429
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220356
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240596
OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in predicting poverty using alternative objective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159707
Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228751
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140020
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140318
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167998