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

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...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

Stifel,David C.;
Document Date
2006/01/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS3810
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Kenya, World,
Region
Other, Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data
Keywords
asset index

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Christiaensen,Luc; Stifel,David C..

Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3810 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/770051468040738171

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

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