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 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 rural areas...
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2019/06/10
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8878
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2019/06/10
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Disclosed
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Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data : A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach
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rural area