Diamonds in the Rough? : Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-Level Consumption Poverty (English)

Traditional per capita measures of poverty assign the same poverty status to individuals living in the same household and overlook differences in living standards within households. There has been a long-standing need for a tool that enables poverty measurement at the individual level, while avoiding overly complex estimation techniques and, if possible, using readily available household survey data. An ordinary least squares–based strategy was recently...

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Bose-Duker,Theophiline;

Gaddis,Isis;

Kilic,Talip;

Lechene,Valérie;

Pendakur,Krishna;
Document Date
2021/05/13
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9661
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2021/05/13
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Disclosed
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Diamonds in the Rough? : Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-Level Consumption Poverty
Keywords
scale economy

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Bose-Duker,Theophiline; Gaddis,Isis; Kilic,Talip; Lechene,Valérie; Pendakur,Krishna.

Diamonds in the Rough? : Repurposing Multi-Topic Surveys to Estimate Individual-Level Consumption Poverty (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9661 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/354631620913886186

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