Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9707323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Ravallion (0000-0002-5572-4183, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 438 |
| Pages | 1328 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2235525 |
| OpenAlex | W3126033029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 114 |
| References cited | 22 |
Economists have relied heavily on household incomes or expenditures normalized for differences in household specific prices and demographics in their research and policy advice related to poverty and inequality. Recognizing the conceptual and empirical problems that confound such measures does not mean that they should be ignored. Instead, it indicates the need for supplementary measures to capture the missing items. Implementing a genuinely multidimensional approach will often make the welfare rankings of social states more difficult, but that fact points to the nonrobustness of low-dimensional rankings. This may have its own policy ramifications, with the possibility of correspondence between policy instruments and welfare objectives. The model types used to understand the poverty and inequity determination processes will be affected. Not only will there be more dependent variables to consider, but variables will have potentially complex relationships. These relationships will often be hard to empirically disentangle, despite richer integrated and longitudinal data sets. Such data open rich and relevant agenda for research into the dynamics of poverty along multiple dimensions. A simultaneous attack on these issues from all three fronts - measurement, modeling, and data - offers hope of establishing a credible empirical foundation for public action in fighting poverty
Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Poverty · Public economics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Poverty, Sociology of
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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations
Tracking Poverty Over Time In The Absence Of Comparable Consumption Data
A Control Function Approach To Estimating Dynamic Probit Models With Endogenous Regressors, With An Application To The Study Of Poverty Persistence In China
Can China's rural elderly count on support from adult children? Implications of rural-to-urban migration
Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys
The Welfare State as Piggy Bank
Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand
Caste, Inequality, and Poverty in India
Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
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Millennium Development Goals
Destitution in Wollo (Ethiopia)
Counting Heads or Counting Televisions
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Articulating Uneven Regional Development
Migrants and non-migrants' welfare on cocoa farms in Ghana
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Does land degradation have an aggravating effect on the multidimensional poverty of rural households? Empirical verification of Burkina Faso
Cash or in-kind transfers
The vulnerability of Central Africa’s estuarine population to forest degradation and coastal erosion
Validating second-order model for economic welfare scale
Unveiling the Spatio-Temporal Patterns and mechanisms of poverty incidence in Southwest China through multi-sourced data and interpretable machine learning
Poverty and security in the Balkans
Poverty persistence and transitions in Uganda
Household Welfare Effects of Agricultural Productivity
Multidimensional Poverty Orderings
The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
Who Avoids and Who Escapes from Poverty during the Transition? Evidence from Polish Panel Data, 1993 96
Why Poverty Persists
Household Expenditure and Poverty Measures in 60 Minutes
Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1)
Events that Trigger Poverty Entries and Exits
Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
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Relationships between HIV/Aids, income and expenditure over time in deprived South African households
Relational Capability
A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Poverty in Paradise
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Childhood overweight in the United States
The height-for-age of Indian children
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From Unidimensional to Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago
Multidimensional poverty in South‐West Nigeria
Child Deprivation and Multidimensional Child Poverty Among Children Under Five Years in an Urban Slum in Enugu State, Nigeria
The Measurement and Description of Child Income and Asset Poverty in Canada
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration
The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
Multidimensional Deprivation
Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty
The poverty burden
Housing, medical, and food deprivation in poor urban contexts
Stability and Change in Community Perceptions of Poverty
Land degradation and spatial vulnerabilities
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
Rethinking relative measures of poverty
Gender differences in subjective well-being in Central and Eastern Europe
Can Social Protection Tackle Chronic Poverty
Discerning Transient from Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua
Operational Models for Improving the Targeting Efficiency of Development Policies
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures
Dropping out
Reasonable expectations on the prospects for documenting the impact of agricultural research on poverty in ex-post case studies
Global Poverty Estimates
Vulnerability and Chronic Poverty in Rural Sichuan
Estimating the Scale and Geography of Global Poverty Now and in the Future
On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition
Why the poor do not benefit from community-driven development
Realising poverty in all its dimensions
Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s
Leaving no one behind
Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis
Measuring chronic poverty without a panel
Measuring the poverty reduction potential of land in rural Mexico
Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys
From Childhood Deprivation to Adult Social Exclusion
Modelling Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and Policy Implications for Poverty Reduction
A multidimensional approach to child poverty in Taiwan
Are income poverty and perceptions of financial difficulties dynamically interrelated
Poverty and psychological distress in Latin America
Determining Dimensions of Poverty Applicable in China
Poverty and Hardship among the Aged in Urban China
Poverty reduction and aid
On Estimating the Poverty Gap and the Poverty Severity Indices With Auxiliary Information
Optimal Anti‐Poverty Programmes
Renda, preço dos alimentos e participação de frutas e hortaliças na dieta
Mirovinske reforme
Effect of Household and Local Enterprise Activity on Poverty Alleviation across Uganda’s Diverse Regional Contexts
The Measurement of Child Poverty in the United States
Poverty, livelihood and class in rural South Africa
La pauvreté
Analysis of Poverty in Slovakia Based on the Concept of Relative Deprivation
Multidimensional poverty indicators in Brazil's Legal Amazon
A Guide to Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys and Their Data Sets
Inequality and Growth Reconsidered
Public Action and the Quality of Life in Developing Countries
Commodities and capabilities
Poverty and Social Security
Decomposing Social Indicators Using Distributional Data
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures
The analysis of household surveys
Subgroup Consistent Poverty Indices
On the Measurement of Poverty
Poverty and Famines
Poverty
Nutrition and Labor Producvivity in Agriculture
The measurement of household cost functions
A simple test of the nutrition-based efficiency wage model
Intertemporal Choice and Inequality
Gaining Ground
On Indices for the Measurement of Poverty
Poverty and Household Size
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
Human Development in Poor Countries
| Unique citing works | 114 |
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| Citations per year | 4,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 114 |