. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …

the measurement of poverty is ex post and thus, public interventions are directed at helping those who have been …The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in … identified as poor, the government must broaden the scope of assessments and take account of the dynamics in poverty in public …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …

the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty … character of poverty; its generative mechanisms; and epistemological priorities. The quantitative analysis provides an …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …