We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … methodology to newly available panel data on household consumption. We find overall mobility has been markedly low: at least 7 out … groups, and rural households are in a more disadvantageous position in terms of escaping poverty or transitioning into …

enhancing inputs at the household level, a relational view of poverty suggests the need to address counter-productive relations … the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

Poverty statistics are conventionally compiled using data from household income and expenditure survey or living … household surveys on income and expenditures are not conducted, but data on geospatial correlates of poverty are available. … standards survey. This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available …

The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources … sizes of surveys on household income and expenditure or living standards, an option that is not always practical for … granular poverty maps. This study outlines a computational framework to enhance the spatial granularity of government …

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …Household consumption or income surveys do not typically cover refugee populations. In the rare cases where refuges are … included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the …