Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by … poverty measures to include a temporal dimension. Using panel data from rural India, we show how conventional poverty measures … can distort understandings of poverty: exposure to poverty is wider and more common than typically measured, and poverty …

lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paperaddresses the question of how poverty should be measured over …This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurringeconomic crises that affect developing …