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. …

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

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the …-established approaches to estimate the equivalence scale: an 'objective' one, based on consumption expenditures available in the national … weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and …

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. …

We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area … highlights the value of the approach, including its advantages in the monitoring and evaluation of public expenditures. We … conclude that the FOD approach to poverty mapping constitutes a useful addition to the toolkit of policy analysts. …

to measure modern energy access or its deprivation, energy poverty. This paper discusses fi ve energy poverty measurement …