poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption. They consider what theory can say about the direction of …Poverty rates calculated on the basis of different definitions of consumption may reveal substantial biases, but under … poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of …

different parts of a country, especially between urban and rural areas. Current global poverty measurement lacks an adjustment …Measuring global poverty requires two types of spatial price adjustments: inter-country price adjustment based on the … avoid poverty estimation bias, largely because many countries collected 2011 ICP price information only in urban areas. Data …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice …

attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems …The "Cost of Basic Needs" (CBN) approach to drawing consumption-based poverty lines is widely applied and lays credible … claim to being the best practice for estimating poverty measures. Unfortunately, a growing mass of evidence indicates that …