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Estimating Poverty Rates in Target Populations : An Assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard and Alternative Approaches

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from house...

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Main Authors: Diamond, Alexis, Gill, Michael, Rebolledo Dellepiane, Miguel, Skoufias, Emmanuel, Vinha, Katja, Xu, Yiqing
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
simple poverty scorecard
PPI
headcount poverty rate
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26695758/estimating-poverty-rates-target-populations-assessment-simple-poverty-scorecard-alternative-approaches
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25038

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26695758/estimating-poverty-rates-target-populations-assessment-simple-poverty-scorecard-alternative-approaches
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25038

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