Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences …, this case study explores the Consumer Price Index price data as a source for spatial price measurement. It applies the … spatial price adjustment in poverty analysis in low- and middle-income countries …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006 using National Family and Health Surveys. We find a strong reduction in …India has witnessed high economic growth since the 1980s, and a reduction in the share of income poor, though the … measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion …

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount … during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake … and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of which are modified to allow poverty lines to vary over time and space. The …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to … to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades …

explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy …