This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework, the paper identifies several gaps in the existing literature and areas where applied poverty analysts would benefit from sharper recommendations. Based on these considerations, the paper proposes some critical topics for further research.
Authors
- DOI
- https://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10813
- Disclosure Date
- 2024/06/24
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Setting Poverty Lines for Consumption-Based Welfare Measures: A Research Agenda
- Originating Unit
- Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
- Product Line
- Advisory Services & Analytics
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- 1W-Gsg1 Data For Policy Analysis (Iii) -- P179301
- Sector
- Central Government (Central Agencies)
- Series Name
- Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10813; PROSPERITY;
- Theme
- Inclusive Growth,Mitigation,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Economic Policy,Rural Development,Social Development and Protection,Economic Growth and Planning,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Disease Control,Pandemic Response,Fragility, Conflict and Violence,Public Sector Management,Climate change,Urban and Rural Development,Adaptation,Geospatial Services,Data production, accessibility and use
- Unit Owning
- EFI-Poverty and Equity-GE (EPVGE),EFI-AFR2-POV-Poverty and Equity (EAWPV)
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1
Table of Contents
- Abstract 3
- 1 Introduction 4
- 2 A unified analytical framework 6
- Figure 1: poverty and utility 7
- 3 Review of the literature 10
- 3.1 Measuring consumption expenditure 11
- 3.2 Referencing 12
- 3.3 Identification 12
- 3.4 Price adjustments 15
- 3.5 Multiple poverty lines 16
- 4 Research agenda 17
- 4.1 Economic foundations of poverty measurement: A unified framework 17
- 4.2 Comparing single and multiple poverty lines: Theory and practice 18
- 4.3 The consequences of imperfect and inconsistent coverage of consumption expenditures, price deflators and poverty lines 18
- 4.4 Engel curve-based poverty lines: Theory and practice 19
- 4.5 Price adjustments for poverty measurement 20
- 4.6 Consistency and specificity in poverty measurement 20
- 4.7 How sensitive are poverty estimates to poverty measurement methods? 20
- 4.8 Equivalence scales and poverty measurement 21
- References 23
