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 …

Agricultural Labourers (CPIAL) for rural India, and the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPIIW) for urban India. Over … the five years from 1999-2000 to 2004-05, the food component of the CPIAL understated the rate of food price inflation … official poverty counts for rural India in 2004-5 are too low; the official headcount ratio of 28.3 percent should be closer to …

Trimmed-mean Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation does not clearly dominate ex-food-and-energy PCE … inflation in real-time forecasting of headline PCE inflation. However, trimmed-mean inflation is the superior communications and … policy tool because it is a less-biased real-time estimator of headline inflation and because it more successfully filters …

displayed by U.S. inflation data and discussing conceptual issues around measurement, we provide a unified framework to …We discuss the concept of core inflation and its relevance for policymakers and then review a variety of approaches …

This paper proposes a new econometric framework for estimating trend inflation and the slope of the Phillips curve with … a regime-switching model. As a unique aspect of our approach, we assume regimes for the trend inflation at one …-percent intervals, and estimate the probability of the trend inflation being in each regime. The trend inflation described in the …

The aim of this study is to develop an eclectic but robust model that allows for a better measure of expected inflation … and allows testing for all sorts of biases. Improving the measure of expected inflation is of critical importance for … conducting monetary policy. In many circumstances, indicators of expected inflation move in opposite directions, and this …

We apply both classical and Bayesian econometric methods to characterize the dynamic behavior of inflation for twelve … 1990s. Allowing for a break in intercept, the inflation measures generally exhibit relatively low inflation persistence …. Evidently, high inflation persistence is not an inherent characteristic of industrial economies. …