This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009–10, and 2011–12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable goods expenditure conducted in 2014- 15. At the 1.90 US dollar per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a 2014–15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in...
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2019/06/10
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Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada)
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137681
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2019/06/11
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Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data : A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach
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rural area