In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have … happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates …

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

contribution in overall poverty for the periods 2011 and 2014 using MICS data and the Alkire-Foster method for four districts … overall poverty level in Lahore Division in 2014 compared to 2011. The living standards of the people residing in rural areas … are relatively low as compare to urban areas. Different standings of the poverty level are found in all districts, while …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …