In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

aggregation strategies and actual prices paid by consumers. We demonstrate that our methodology improves inflation measurement …

basket of goods. It is well-known that this approach suffers from problems and creates several biases in the measurement of …

.S. PCE Deflator methodology is superior to the Japanese CPI methodology but still exhibits substantial measurement error and …

methodology which can either augment or build additional indices. In addition to addressing potential issues of the HDI, we …