Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been … reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced … humanitarian and development organizations are currently undertaking to close this historical gap in poverty measurement. …

With rural extreme poverty officially eradicated in 2020, China is to move to measuring relative poverty in urban and … rural areas. Relative poverty describes circumstances in which people cannot afford actively to participate in society and … percent of national median disposable income. While a single poverty threshold symbolises national unity, separate poverty …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production … involve smallholders in feedstock production in order to reduce rural poverty, especially since our results indicate that … biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment …