uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

Monitoring poverty trends on a timely and consistent basis is a priority for policy makers. These objectives are … consistent and transparent criteria. This paper develops and applies a formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation …-based poverty estimates closely tracking direct estimates of poverty …