terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, the authors show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and … poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

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

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures …, particularly the head-count ratio, and household attributes. Given that the recentered influence function of these measures is also …

household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the individual-based measure. Using a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … undernourished individuals are spread across the household per-capita expenditure distribution. We then quantify the extent of food …

.Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias …

This paper focuses on approaches to linking macroeconomic models to household income data for poverty and … distributional analysis. Given that linkage methods can influence the resulting poverty and income distribution effects … highlight the extended micro-accounting method as a practical approach to linking macroeconomic models to household income data …