health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first …

, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … welfare measures such as the poverty headcount rate, collecting such data requires significant time and effort. In this study … are i) consumption correlates model, ii) poverty probability model, and iii) the wealth index Principal Components …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …