calculates multilateral price indexes for the states and sectors of India, as well as PPPs for rural and urban Indonesia together … different from previous estimates based on bilateral comparisons, but the estimated PPP between India and Indonesia is very … with rural and urban India. PPPs for the poor are distinguished from general PPPs. The internal PPPs for India are not very …

, we show that the conclusions about poverty changes over time are significantly affected by using alternative strategies …

the conclusions about poverty changes over time are significantly affected by using less appropriate strategies to convert …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …

The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH … estimates of the recursive structural system are based on data for 504 districts of India on relevant parameters from alternate …

equivalent expenditures are taken as welfare indicators for calculating poverty and inequality measures as they incorporate …

, including a broad range of poverty and inequality measures. The procedure we propose requires the existence of a set of … use our adjustment procedure to estimate poverty counts from the 55th Round of the Indian National Sample Survey, a large … likely to understate poverty relative to the previous rounds. We provide evidence supporting the plausibility of the …

In this paper we examine the incidence of poverty and inequality across different States and socio-economic groups in … order to get a spatial picture of welfare distribution in India. Our welfare indicator is the money-metric measure of … different poverty and inequality measures based on these equivalent expenditures and carry out our comparative analysis. We …

differences exist, the general evidence shows that, apart from India and China, poverty in the world is getting worse; but it is …Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This … paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It …