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Estimating poverty rates in target populations : an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches (English)

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from household socioeconomic surveys that span nearly a decade and are representative of subnational populations. When the models all adopt the same "one-size-fits-all" training approach, there is no meaningful difference...
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Skoufias,Emmanuel; Vinha,Katja Pauliina; Xu,Yiqing; Diamond,Alexis; Gill,Michael; Rebolledo Dellepiane,Miguel Angel.

Estimating poverty rates in target populations : an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7793 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/801751471268674333

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