Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

Channing Arndt is a senior research fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.
Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Coordinator of the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with a sustained interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth. He has published widely in international academic journals alongside various books. He is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons and is a resource person of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

PART I: PRINCIPLES AND CHOICES
1. Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries: motivation and overview, Channing Arndt and Finn Tarp
2. Absolute poverty lines, Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, and Finn Tarp
3. Multidimensional first-order dominance comparisons of population wellbeing, Channing Arndt, Nikolaj Siersbaek, and Lars Peter Osterdal
4. Estimation in practice, Channing Arndt and Kristi Mahrt
PART II: COUNTRY APPLICATIONS
5. Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11, David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna
6. Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10, David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena, and Faly Rakotomanana
7. Methods matter: the sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptions, Ulrik Beck, Richard Mussa, and Karl Pauw
8. A review of consumption poverty estimation for Mozambique, Channing Arndt, Sam Jones, Kristi Mahrt, Vincenzo Salvucci, and Finn Tarp
9. Poverty trends in Pakistan, Hina Nazli, Edward Whitney, and Kristi Mahrt
10. Uganda: a new set of utility-consistent poverty lines, Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira, and Fiona Nattembo
11. Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2007-2013, Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo
12. Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana, Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, and Samuel Kobina Annim
13. Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria, Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Olufunke A. Alaba, and Kristi Mahrt
14. Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania, Channing Arndt, Vincent Leyaro, Kristi Mahrt, and Finn Tarp
15. Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia, Kristi Mahrt and Gibson Masumbu
PART III: SUMMING-UP AND LESSONS LEARNT
16. Synthesis, Channing Arndt, Kristi Mahrt, and Finn Tarp
17. Keep it real: measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries, Ulrik Richardt Beck
18. Conclusions and looking forward, Channing Arndt and Finn Tarp
APPENDIX A: User guide to Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software-PLEASe, Channing Arndt, Ulrik Richardt Beck, M. Azhar Hussain, Kristi Mahrt, Kenneth Simler, and Finn Tarp
APPENDIX B: User guide to Estimating First-Order Dominance software (EFOD), Channing Arndt and Kristi Mahrt