Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … income not by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. The paper … income not by household size but by the square root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … income not by household size but by the square root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World … 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 …

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 …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than … vergleichbar zu machen. Aufgrund ihrer praktischen Relevanz für die Messung von Ungleichheit und Armut wurden etliche Methoden für …