The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are subject to both the set of selected parameters (or...

This paper tests for robust multidimensional poverty comparisons across six countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Two dimensions are considered, nutritional status and assets. The estimation of the asset index is based on two factorial analysis methods. The first...

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Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...

This paper assesses multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. We use the National Baseline Household Surveys (NBHS) of 2009 to measure poverty incidence in education, consumption, access to public assets and possession of private assets across these two countries. We differentiate...

This paper explores the feasibility of calculating absolute poverty lines on the basis of minimum food expenditures in developed countries. It makes three important contributions. First, it demonstrates that standard statistical methods used in the developing world deliver either inadequate...

This study implements the modern poverty measure for Minnesota using the American Community Survey (ACS) and simulates the potential effects of alternative safety net policies on poverty. The analysis uses the TRIM microsimulation model to correct for survey underreporting and to add information...

We reformulate and decompose the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients into two components. We recommend the first component for detecting linear or monotonic relationships and the second for recognizing patterns of two parallel lines, providing robust versions to outliers. Thus, we...

One innovation defined in the new market risk rules by the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is the Non-Modellable Risk Factor (NMRF) framework. This new concept introduces a methodology to differentiate between modellable and non-modellable risk factors in the Internal Models...

This manuscript is program documentation for three ways to calculate the mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, covariance, correlation, regression parameters and other regression statistics. The traditional or "textbook" method passes through the data once to calculate the mean then accesses the...