ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analytical review of the recent technical literature on intertemporal poverty measurement (also known as chronic poverty measurement or lifetime poverty measurement) in which an individual measure of well-being (or the lack of) is aggregated both over time and across people. The chapter has a practical emphasis. Its main aims are to make the intertemporal poverty measures which have been introduced in the technical literature accessible to applied practitioners conducting poverty analysis and to encourage their appropriate application. Different measures have different properties which reflect alternative normative principles or judgements. We present intuitive motivations for and explanations of these properties and give a comprehensive review of the properties satisfied by different measures. We argue that there is no ‘best’ measure; different measures may be more suited to particular types of data or concepts of poverty.
