2026-07-01http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418023Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya.application/pdftext/plainCC BY 3.0 IGOhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/World BankAGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCEAGRICULTURAL POLICYAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTUREASSET HOLDINGSBASE YEARCHANGES IN POVERTYCOMMUNITY ASSETSCOMPARING POVERTYCONSUMPTION BASKETCONSUMPTION DATACONSUMPTION GROWTHCONSUMPTION LEVELSCONSUMPTION MEASURECONSUMPTION MEASURESCONSUMPTION SURVEYSCORRELATION COEFFICIENTCOVARIANCE MATRIXDATA REQUIREMENTSDECLINE IN POVERTYDEFLATORSDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT GOALSDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSDEVELOPMENT ISSUESECONOMETRIC ANALYSISECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC STUDIESECONOMIC SYSTEMSECONOMIC THEORYEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTEMPIRICAL APPLICATIONEMPIRICAL MODELEMPIRICAL RESULTSESTIMATED COEFFICIENTSEXPECTED VALUEFOOD POLICYGDPGDP PER CAPITAHEADCOUNT RATIOHOUSEHOLD BUDGETHOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICSHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICSHOUSEHOLD EXPENDITUREHOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURESHOUSEHOLD HEADHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSEHOLD LEVELHOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHOUSEHOLD SIZEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITYHOUSEHOLD WELFAREHOUSINGHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME MEASURESINFANT MORTALITYLAND HOLDINGSLANDHOLDINGSLIVELIHOODLIVELIHOODSLIVING STANDARDSLIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENTMALNUTRITIONMEASUREMENT OF POVERTYMEASURING POVERTYNATIONAL ACCOUNTSNATIONAL POVERTYNEGATIVE SIGNNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONNUTRITIONAL STATUSOFFICIAL POVERTYOFFICIAL POVERTY LINEPOLICY RESEARCHPOOR PEOPLEPOVERTY ANALYSISPOVERTY CHANGEPOVERTY COMPARISONSPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY INCIDENCEPOVERTY INDICESPOVERTY LEVELSPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MAPPINGPOVERTY MEASUREPOVERTY MEASUREMENTPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY SEVERITYPRICE ELASTICITYPRIMARY EDUCATIONPUBLIC GOODSRANK CORRELATIONREDUCING POVERTYREDUCTION IN POVERTYRELATIVE PRICERURAL AREASRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL POVERTYRURAL WELFARESANITATIONSECONDARY ENROLLMENTSECONDARY ENROLLMENT RATESSIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONSUB-SAHARAN AFRICAURBAN AREASURBAN POVERTYUTILITY THEORYVALUATIONVULNERABLE GROUPSWEALTHWELFARE INDICATORWELFARE MEASUREWELFARE MEASURESWELFARE MONITORING