household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … higher when using the household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion …