multidimensional, various indicators of household welfare such as consumption, poverty status, assets, dietary quality, and diversity … 2014-15 National Household Budget and Poverty Survey (NHBPS) to document the main types of shocks that Sudanese households … programs, exposure of households to frequent shocks lowers their ability to escape poverty, pushing households slightly above …

multidimensional, various indicators of household welfare such as consumption, poverty status, assets, dietary quality, and diversity … 2014/15 National Household Budget and Poverty Survey (NHBPS) to document the main types of shocks that Sudanese households … impacts of shocks on household welfare depends on the nature and severity of the shocks as well as households? capacity to …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being across countries and/or time, we ask whether it is appropriate to use the … same equivalence scale if consumption expenditure patterns differ? We estimate equivalence scales for eight countries with …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …, but not twice as much due to the economies of scale in consumption. In this study, we ask whether it is appropriate to use … a common equivalence scale when comparing economic well-being across countries and/or time if consumption expenditure …