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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …
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There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …
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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … estimates, which even fall within one standard error of the true poverty rates in many cases. Further adding geospatial …
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demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …
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, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …
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measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …
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relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …
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