Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social … ways. Previous studies that have sought to incorporate assets into poverty measures suggest that (1) poverty estimates … including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than …

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 consider the estimation of measures of persistent poverty in panel surveys with missing data, focusing on the … persistent poverty headcount, its duration-adjusted variant, and a related measure used by the European Union as an indicator of … the risk of persistent poverty. We develop a partial identification approach to allow for data missing-not-at-random, and …

of possible impacts of measurement errors on poverty analysis are briefly discussed. These experiments clearly show the … importance of the topic in poverty and inequality data analysis …

Based on microeconomic consumer theory, this paper proposes a new methodology for the construction of poverty …

techniques, in particular kernel density estimation, in estimating poverty from grouped data. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we … show that kernel density estimation gives rise to nontrivial biases in estimated poverty levels that depend on the … bandwidth, kernel, poverty indicator, size of the dataset, and data generating process. Furthermore, the empirical bias in the …

Kernel density estimation (KDE) has been prominently used to measure poverty from grouped data (Sala-i-Martin, 2006 … distributions and unit data from several household surveys, we compare KDE-based poverty estimates with their true and survey … counterparts. We find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty estimates the sign and magnitude of which vary with the …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning key parameters that influence the poverty line and estimated … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …