This article attempts to shed empirical light on the issues surrounding rural poverty alleviation and the rural nonagricultural sector. It focuses on the particular case of Ecuador, and is based on high-quality household survey data modeled on the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement...

Based on a statistical procedure that combines household survey data with population census data, this paper presents estimates of inequality for three developing countries at a level of disaggregation far below that allowed by household surveys alone. We show that while the share of...

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based on a statistical procedure to combine household survey data with population census data,...