The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …

OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests …, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in … predicting poverty using alternative objective functions and stochastic dominance analysis based on coverage curves. It finds …

point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such … as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …

point is afforded by the status of a focus-axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion …

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

, 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 chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …