The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various … a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

estimate bias attributable to intergenerational poverty descents. Using simple experiments and data from India, poverty …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

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

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …