Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …

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

This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …

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 …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …