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Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data

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  • Stifel, David
  • Christiaensen, Luc

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Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys fromKenya.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 3810.

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Date of creation: 01 Jan 2006
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Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3810

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Keywords: Rural Poverty Reduction; Achieving Shared Growth; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Economic Theory&Research; Poverty Lines;

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  1. Harttgen, Kenneth & Klasen, Stephan & Vollmer, Sebastian, 2012. "Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa," Discussion Papers 130164, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
  2. Kenneth Harttgen & Stephan Klasen & Sebastian Vollmer, 2012. "An African Growth Miracle? Or: What do Asset Indices Tell Us about Trends in Economic Performance?," Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 109, Courant Research Centre PEG.
  3. Harttgen, Kenneth & Opfinger, Matthias, 2012. "In the Nation We Trust: National Identity as a Substitute for Religion," Diskussionspapiere der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Leibniz Universität Hannover dp-491, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät.
  4. Melanie Grosse & Stephan Klasen & Julius Spatz, 2009. "Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia," Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 21, Courant Research Centre PEG.
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  6. Kodila-Tedika, Oasis, 2012. "Africa's statistical tragedy: best statistics, best government effectiveness," MPRA Paper 40674, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  7. Echevin, Damien, 2011. "Vulnerability and livelihoods before and after the Haiti earthquake," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5850, The World Bank.
  8. Deon Filmer & Kinnon Scott, 2012. "Assessing Asset Indices," Demography, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 359-392, February.
  9. Sebastian Levine & Benjamin Roberts, 2012. "Robust Estimates of Changes in Poverty and Inequality in Post-Independence Namibia," Working Papers 102, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
  10. World Bank, 2011. "Georgia - Poverty dynamics, 2003-2010," World Bank Other Operational Studies 2806, The World Bank.
  11. World Bank, 2009. "Kenya - Poverty and Inequality Assessment : Executive Summary and Synthesis Report," World Bank Other Operational Studies 3081, The World Bank.

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