Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data (English)

Following the endorsement by the international community of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), there has been an increasing demand for practical methods for steadily tracking poverty. An economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology is explored for doing so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for this methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series...

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Stifel,David C.;

Christiaensen,Luc;
Document Date
2007/05/01
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
77547
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2013/05/27
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Disclosed
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Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data
Keywords
asset index

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Stifel,David C.; Christiaensen,Luc.

Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data (English). Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/502301468329070750

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