Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

By David Stifel, L. Christiaensen. 2007

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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.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Safety Research

1. Stephan Klasen
2. Jeffery S. McMullen
3. S. Bradley
4. Kenneth Harttgen
5. S. Knowles
6. S. Seguino
7. N. Kabeer
8. Luisa Natali

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Stephan Klasen
2. E. Simiyu
3. Jeffery S. McMullen
4. Kendall Artz
5. S. Bradley
6. Kenneth Harttgen
7. S. Knowles
8. S. Seguino

In Soil Science

1. Stephan Klasen
2. Kenneth Harttgen

Citations in the corpus

• A Household-Based Human Development Index (2012, methodology): “In addition, asset indices are used to analyze changes and determinants of poverty (Harttgen and Misselhorn, 2007; Sahn and Stifel, 2000; Stifel and Christiaensen 2007; World Bank, 2006).”
• Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, result): “The final poverty indicators map well with other earlier approaches (Sahn and Stifel, 2003; Stifel and Christiaensen, 2007; Zeller et al., 2006).”