Search Results - subject:"POVERTY ASSESSMENT"

Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning

McBride, Linden; Nichols, Austin - In: The World Bank Economic Review 32 (2018) 3, pp. 531-550

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) poverty assessment tool and base data for demonstration of these …Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty … assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize …

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Mapping Subnational Poverty in Zambia

Fuente, Alejandro de la; Murr, Andreas; Rascón, Ericka - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

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The Unfulfilled Promise of Oil and Growth : Poverty, Inclusion and Welfare in Iraq 2007-2012

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

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Estimating Income/Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law-Working Paper 339

Pritchett, Lant; Spivack, Marla - 2013

How much larger are the consumption possibilities of an urban US household with per capita expenditures of 1,000 US dollars per month than a rural Indonesian household with per capita expenditures of 1,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah per month? Consumers in different markets face widely different...

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Ländliche Armut in Indonesien: Indikatoren, Dynamik und Verbindung zur Entwaldung ; Rural Poverty in Indonesia: Proxy-means Tests, Dynamics, and Linkages with Deforestation

van Edig, Xenia Felice - 2013

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Problematiche aperte nell’analisi della povertÃ : questioni di misura e progressi nel raggiungimento degli Obiettivi del Millennio

Vindigni, Gabriella; Peri, Luri; PROSPERI, Paolo - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

Poverty of peoples is a crucial concern in development as in research questions. Measures of poverty represent a key issue in implementing politics towards resolution of deprivation conditions. In the last 40 years we assisted at two main approaches. The traditional income-consumption based...

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How Best to Target the Poor? An operational targeting of the poor using indicator-based proxy means tests

Houssou, Nazaire; Zeller, Manfred; Alcaraz V., Gabriela; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010

This paper seeks to answer an operational development question: how best to target the poor? In their endeavor, policy makers, program managers, and development practitioners face the daily challenge of targeting policies, projects, and services at the poorer strata of the population. This is...

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How robust are indicator based poverty assessment tools over time? Empirical evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

van Edig, Xenia; Schwarze, Stefan; Zeller, Manfred - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

to test first whether two indicators sets for poverty assessment found in 2005 are still capable in predicting absolute …

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Dollar a Day Revisited

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 2, pp. 163-184

The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more representative data set of national poverty lines, a...

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Côte d’Ivoire - Public Expenditure Management and Financial Accountability Review : Volume 3. Public Procurement Assessment Report

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2008

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