underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income …

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …

requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other …

Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However …, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption … tested directly. This study analyses the performance of poverty prediction models based on small area estimation (SAE …

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of … persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom … requires that intertemporal poverty is identical to static poverty in the degenerate single-period case. The remaining two …