A Review of Consumption Poverty Estimation for Mozambique

Channing Arndt; Edward Samuel Jones; Kristi Mahrt; Vincenzo Salvucci; Finn Tarp

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0008

A Review of Consumption Poverty Estimation for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Edward Samuel Jones, Kristi Mahrt, Vincenzo Salvucci, Finn Tarp

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Since the end of the civil war in 1992, Mozambique has registered significant progress across a range of monetary and non-monetary poverty indicators at both national and regional levels. This conclusion of material progress draws from a large array of nationally representative datasets that became available starting from 1996. This chapter is concerned with the estimation of consumption poverty rates. It begins by reviewing the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments. Efforts to maintain consistency imply that prior choices tend to be adopted in subsequent analyses. At the same time, the practice of consumption poverty analysis is not static. Because ‘best practice’ evolves (and hopefully improves) with time, there arises a natural tension between the desire to follow best practice and the desire to maintain consistency with previous analyses.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
Redaktører	Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp
Forlag	Oxford University Press
Publikationsdato	2017
Sider	108-120
Kapitel	8
ISBN (Trykt)	9780198744801
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0008
Status	Udgivet - 2017

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