terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, the authors show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and … poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

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 …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …Forward-looking poverty analyses are essential for targeting and implementing poverty prevention interventions. In the … presence of uncertainty and risk, the current poverty status of households is not a good indicator of whether they will be poor …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … vergleichbar zu machen. Aufgrund ihrer praktischen Relevanz für die Messung von Ungleichheit und Armut wurden etliche Methoden für … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …

take into account some aspects of household living conditions that are not included in the measure of relative poverty …Motivated by an interest in investigating factors associated with poverty risks in Italy, our study provides insight … economic inadequacy of households. We propose that a household is in a condition of economic inadequacy when it simultaneously …