For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, "The Handbook on Poverty and Inequality" is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, the Handbook consists of explanatory text with...

This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This publication argues that the...

The paper provides an overview of the methodologies used by the Indian Planning Commission in the past 30 years. Using the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the...

The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh. Data used in the paper are mainly taken from two national surveys: Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) and Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau...