)" methodology), using data from the IHLCA-II. The World Bank estimated poverty to be 37.5 percent in 2009/10 (World Bank, 2014) …A joint analysis of poverty and living standards was conducted by a technical team from the Ministry of Planning and … Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been …

This poverty and equity report provides updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada Survey of Living … Grenada, examine poverty and inequality trends, and develop a basket of goods and services that can be used to estimate the …

Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be … predictions available for all households, inequality and poverty statistics can be estimated for small geographic areas (Elbers et … al, 2003).2 In the results below, the poverty statistics that are calculated by using the predicted consumption data for …

National poverty rates are traditionally measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring and to contain … produce statistically reliable poverty estimates for small geographic units. This report discusses two means of addressing the … issue. The first is commonly referred to as poverty mapping, and derives estimates of monetary poverty as it was officially …

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase … monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official …, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions." A particular …

It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also …-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development and use of quantitative measures of multidimensional poverty. This … paper analyzes the construction and use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Malaysia, which the Malaysian …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlook periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in … financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region's slowing economic growth … crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC's labor markets and …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …