In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country …'s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the … potential gains from such comparisons in terms of realigning a country's poverty estimates and better informing policy choices …

There are often large regional differences in poverty and other social indicators within a country. But geographic … poverty profiles based on household surveys tend to be limited to broad areas because survey sample sizes are too small to … permit analysts to construct valid estimates of poverty at the local level. This issue of Findings looks at another way to …

has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is … subjective perceptions of poverty trends, and what may explain this divergence: the objective of this note is to document and …

In many sub-Saharan African countries household surveys are well designed to measure consumption and poverty as well as … because income data is essential to identify the links between growth and poverty reduction, to determine ways to improve … countries as well as international organizations such as the World Bank are asked to document the potential poverty and social …

Definitions of poverty in developing countries used by most development organizations focus on household income or … terms and ideas to communicate what extreme poverty means to them. This paper discusses learning from the extreme poor in …