A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation … demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …