Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

on how prices matter for measuring poverty, particularly in Africa. It draws on a wide literature, much from developed …Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across … of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and …