Monitoring Poverty in a Data-Deprived Environment: The Case of Lebanon

This paper addresses the lack of data and limited statistical capacity in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly amid Lebanon's economic collapse. We apply a novel data augmentation technique to analyze poverty when traditional income data are limited or unavailable. By adapting existin...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Makdissi, Paul (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Marrouch, Walid (author), Yazbeck, Myra (author)
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منشور في: 2024
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/17328
https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12708
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/roiw.12708
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Makdissi, P., Marrouch, W., & Yazbeck, M. (2025). Monitoring Poverty in a Data‐Deprived Environment: The Case of Lebanon. Review of Income and Wealth, 71(1), e12708.
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description This paper addresses the lack of data and limited statistical capacity in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly amid Lebanon's economic collapse. We apply a novel data augmentation technique to analyze poverty when traditional income data are limited or unavailable. By adapting existing methods, we recover continuous income distributions from interval data and derive dominance conditions for such data, accounting for non-response. The proposed approach enables robustness checks by estimating the bounds of admissible cumulative distribution functions. Our empirical analysis uses Lebanese data to perform first-order dominance tests on these bounds, highlighting the importance of the approach. We demonstrate how alternative data sources can be leveraged for essential poverty analysis.
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spelling Monitoring Poverty in a Data-Deprived Environment: The Case of LebanonMakdissi, PaulMarrouch, WalidYazbeck, MyraThis paper addresses the lack of data and limited statistical capacity in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly amid Lebanon's economic collapse. We apply a novel data augmentation technique to analyze poverty when traditional income data are limited or unavailable. By adapting existing methods, we recover continuous income distributions from interval data and derive dominance conditions for such data, accounting for non-response. The proposed approach enables robustness checks by estimating the bounds of admissible cumulative distribution functions. Our empirical analysis uses Lebanese data to perform first-order dominance tests on these bounds, highlighting the importance of the approach. We demonstrate how alternative data sources can be leveraged for essential poverty analysis.Published2025-10-03T13:45:33Z2025-10-03T13:45:33Z20242025-02Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article0034-6586http://hdl.handle.net/10725/17328https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12708Makdissi, P., Marrouch, W., & Yazbeck, M. (2025). Monitoring Poverty in a Data‐Deprived Environment: The Case of Lebanon. Review of Income and Wealth, 71(1), e12708.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/roiw.12708enThe Review of Income and Wealthinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/173282025-10-03T13:45:33Z
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