Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177372 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 201
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes unavailable household consumption data. We offer a review of alternative imputation methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty dynamics. We provide a concise and accessible synthesis, which serves as an introduction to the literature. Our focus is on intuition and practical insights that highlight the nuanced differences between the existing methods rather than technical aspects.
Subjects: 
poverty
imputation
consumption
wealth index
synthetic panels
household survey
JEL: 
C15
I32
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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