TY - RPRT AU - Dang, Hai-Anh H AU - Lanjouw, Peter F. TI - Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement PY - 2021/Aug/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 14631 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14631 AB - Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent review papers, and point to the latest research on the topics. We briefly review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics. We also discuss new areas for imputation. KW - poverty KW - imputation KW - consumption KW - wealth index KW - synthetic panels KW - household survey ER -