For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, "The … Handbook on Poverty and Inequality" is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis … the measurement of poverty and poverty lines, how to create poverty profiles, the comparison of poverty over time and …

This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty … reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many … parts of the world. This publication argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to …

the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of … NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the intertemporal changes in the poverty ratio has been more … consumer expenditure vis-à-vis the private consumption expenditure in the National Accounts Statistics, particularly the recent …

Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Poverty in Bangladesh was earlier measured …The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh … by direct calorie intake (DCI) method. The food energy intake (FEI) method was first used in the Poverty Monitoring …