major limitations, such as the absence of poverty data, sampling bias due to incomplete telephone coverage in many … pilots in 20 countries where the Survey of Wellbeing via Instant and Frequent Tracking, a rapid poverty monitoring tool, was … adopted to estimate poverty rates based on 10 to 15 simple questions collected via phone interviews, and where sampling …

The eradication of poverty, which was the first of the millennium development goals (MDG) established by the United … estimates of poverty at the national level and larger international regions. However, when one starts to disaggregate data by … of poverty and inequality at the national level and for the 32 federate entities (31 states and Mexico City) with …

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We … propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

reliability of survey measures. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey this paper shows how the assumptions of the …

variation approach. We explore the feasibility of this approach in a different context, using large-scale panel data from …