The European 2020 Strategy has launched a novel indicator for monitoring poverty reduction over the current decade … poverty and social exclusion among immigrants. It is argued that the analytical insight and internal consistency of the new … Europe 2020 indicator can be enhanced by a more structured measurement approach, relying on some recent advances generated by …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, the authors show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and … poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World …

poverty lines as well as techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would … measurement consists of two largely independent parts, firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, the … resulting fuel poverty assessment. Options for fuel poverty measurement and subgroup comparison in order to identify most …

Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find … methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for predicting poverty, based upon … a statistical model utilizing consumption surveys and light annual surveys. A decade of poverty predictions and regular …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … synthetic panel estimates relative to benchmarks based on estimates derived from genuine household panel data, employing high …

empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on … questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require reports to be …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive "synthetic panel" data estimates of poverty dynamics … synthetic panel estimates relative to benchmarks based on estimates derived from genuine household panel data, employing high …