Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas

Biographic Data

ID10769082
NAMEOscar Barriga-Cabanillas
GIVEN NAMESOscar
FAMILY NAMEBarriga-Cabanillas
SIGNATUREBARRIGA-CABANILLAS O
AFFILIATIONSWorld Bank Group
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Estimating Poverty in Afghanistan Without Consumption Data

    Open AccessOscar Barriga‐Cabanillas, Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2026

    The last official household survey in Afghanistan showed that in 2020, close to half of the population of the country was living below the national poverty line. Since then, the country has experienced significant economic and social challenges following the change in political regime in 2021. This paper uses the latest developments in survey-to-survey imputations to estimate comparable poverty rates for Afghanistan. The analysis uses the latest …

  • Updating Poverty in Afghanistan Using the SWIFT-Plus Methodology

    Open AccessOscar Barriga-Cabanillas, Parth Chawla et al.BOOK2023

    Close to half of the population of Afghanistan was living below the national poverty line prior to the regime change in August 2021, with no additional information on poverty collected in the country since the last official household survey in 2019/20. This paper fills this knowledge gap through survey-to-survey imputation using a SWIFT-plus methodology. The analysis trains a predictive model on data from the 2019/20 Expenditure and Labor Force s…