The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift …. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition …. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income …

Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require … multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … disaggregated household level. Validation using Monte Carlo simulations and real cross-sectional and actual panel survey data from …

of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel …, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

information, it is already a challenge to derive interesting parameter like inequality or poverty for the individual countries … and global income, poverty and inequality for the period 1980-2013 only based on income quintiles of 178 countries …

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …