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Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data

Author:	Stifel, David; Christiaensen, Luc;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3810
Country:	Kenya; World;	Date Stored:	2006/01/10
Document Date:	2006/01/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region; Africa
Report Number:	WPS3810	SubTopics:	Achieving Shared Growth; Poverty Monitoring & Analysis; Rural Poverty Reduction; Economic Theory & Research; Poverty Lines
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: 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 from Kenya.


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