But … What is the Poverty Rate Today? : Testing Poverty Nowcasting Methods in Latin America and the Caribbean
Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently limits policy responses. This paper takes ad...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/898691497881586394/But-what-is-the-poverty-rate-today-testing-poverty-nowcasting-methods-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27304 |