Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find … methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for predicting poverty, based upon … a statistical model utilizing consumption surveys and light annual surveys. A decade of poverty predictions and regular …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

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

liquid financial assets to maintain a poverty-level living standard for at least three months. Fourth, one in three …