measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …

the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty … character of poverty; its generative mechanisms; and epistemological priorities. The quantitative analysis provides an …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …