This paper examines whether the recent growth in 'low‐fee private'(LFP) schools is able to
promote Education for All by being accessible to the poor. Based primarily on a 13‐village …

As the core component of agricultural development projects, high-standard farmland
construction is a reliable measure of agricultural production, and can be used to improve the …

In Sub-Saharan Africa the cost of transport faced by city dwellers, particularly the poor, tends
to add to their travel and economic difficulties. Knowledge of the burden of transport …

Economists are increasingly aware of the effect that assumptions about economies of
household size have on poverty and inequality comparisons (Coulter, Cowell and Jenkins …

This paper illustrates that questionnaire design significantly affects estimates of household
consumption and absolute poverty. In a between-groups designed experiment in El …

Variation in household survey design and implementation is used to obtain evidence of
nonrandom measurement error in recall surveys of household expenditure. These surveys …

Equivalence scales are routinely applied to adjust the income of households of different
sizes and compositions. Because of their practical importance for the measurement of …

This report presents the methodology and the results of a modelling exercise that
demonstrates that basic social protection benefits are not out of reach for low-income …

The calculation of income–poverty profiles should allow for household size and composition,
but rarely does so. Failure to do this means that the poverty profile will be distorted. The …

Financing incidence analysis (FIA) assesses how the burden of health financing is
distributed in relation to household ability to pay (ATP). In a progressive financing system …